noun:

• humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot ➜ 徒侍
• bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period) ➜ 徒士組【かちぐみ】

noun:

• groom; footman; stableman; equerry
• steward; intendant
• head of an institution, esp. religious; head of one institution serving also as the head of another - archaism

noun:

• living; being alive Antonym: 死に
• freshness; liveliness; vitality
• situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go)
• stet; leave as-is (proofreading) - usually イキ - usually written using kana alone

prefix:

• damned

noun / ~する noun:

• notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration)
• being well versed (in something) ➜ 精通

noun / ~する noun:

• draining a pond, lake, or ditch (esp. to remove fish, purify water, etc.)
• cleaning a well

adverb:

• on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; happily; peacefully

~する noun:

• to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with

noun / ~する noun:

• purchase; buying; buying out

noun / ~する noun / transitive:

• buying used articles as a company; trade-in; buy back

noun / ~する noun:

• purchase on a no-return policy

noun:

• lump-sum payment; flat fee

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun:

• food and drink

noun:

• lactic-acid drink

noun / ~する noun:

• offering a drink

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

noun / ~する noun:

• swallowing whole; swallowing without chewing
• taking something in without fully understanding it
• accepting without reservation; accepting something as-is

noun:

• designated organized crime group; designated criminal organisation; designated boryokudan; designated yakuza group; group officially listed as criminal by the National Police Agency ➜ 暴力団

noun / ~する noun:

• running (for election); coming forward as a candidate
• going on horseback
• going in person
• letting out a horse; taking out a horse - archaism

noun:

• viewing all things as undifferentiated and equal; non-discriminative thought
• contemplation of the equality of all things from the standpoint of emptiness - Buddhism term

noun:

• player's career; one's career in sport; one's career as an athlete - four character idiom

noun:

• wife (esp. one's own wife)
• court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace ［にょうぼう・にゅうぼう］
• woman (esp. as a love interest) ［にょうぼう・にゅうぼう］ - archaism

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

noun:

• offering of mochi rice cakes; mochi rice cakes used as offering ➜ 鏡餅

noun:

• number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation

noun:

• drink; beverage

noun / ~する noun:

• sampling a drink; tasting

noun:

• food and drink