noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

godan ~ぶ verb:

• to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind

adverb:

• please; kindly; I beg of you ➜ 何卒
• by all means; feel free; you are welcome
• here you are - previously written as 何卒

expression / adverb:

• best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of - pun on 宜しく; orig. used by young bike-riding delinquents; now oft. joc. - slang ➜ 宜しく

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to take advantage of; to impose on
• to make an entry (in an account book)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something - esp. 極める, 窮める
• to investigate thoroughly; to master - esp. 究める

noun:

• shot (in films)
• shot (of alcohol)
• hitting a ball (e.g. in tennis)

noun / ~する noun:

• shoot (in basketball)

adverbial noun / noun:

• all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land - four character idiom

noun:

• go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese ➜ 漢音【かんおん】・唐音【とうおん】・呉【ご】

noun:

• floor space index; FSI; floor area ratio; FAR; ratio of building size to lot; plot ratio

noun:

• marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green alga; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball

expression:

• one must constantly be on one's guard with ...; one cannot be too careful of ...

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be recognized (by someone of higher status); to be noticed; to get attention

noun:

• senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest) - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・神主
• grasshopper; locust - obscure term

noun:

• coming out; emerging
• being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)

noun:

• large-flowered cypripedium (species of lady's slipper, Cypripedium macranthos, esp. Cypripedium macranthos var. speciosum)

noun:

• streamlined spinefoot (Siganus argenteus, species of Indo-Pacific rabbitfish); Roman-nose spinefoot; forktail rabbitfish; rabbitface spinefoot

~の noun / noun:

• longish; moderately long ➜ 長め

noun:

• stretcher; long side of timber (etc.), or a timber placed lengthwise - Architecture term
• long road - archaism

noun:

• disaster countermeasures office (temporary structure in case of emergency); headquarters for disaster control; disaster response headquarters

noun:

• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

noun:

• citron tea ➜ 柚子
• jelly-like concentrate of sweetened citron peel used to make citron tea ➜ 柚子

noun:

• dark figure (esp. of crime); dark number; hidden figure; difference between the actual and reported figure

noun:

• missed-program webcast; webcast of a serialized TV show (after the TV broadcast); catch-up TV