noun:

• dry lacquer technique; kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• lifting one's buttocks (e.g. through exercise); getting a perkier bum; getting rid of sagging buttocks - From English "hip up"

noun:

• opening credits; title sequence - freq. read オープニング - abbreviation
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 主題歌

expression:

• one cannot escape from one's worldly desires; the hounds of earthly desires would return each time they are driven away [literal] - proverb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let fly; to make fly; to send flying; to blow off (e.g. in the wind); to launch; to fire; to hurl; to shoot
• to skip over; to leave out; to omit; to drop (e.g. a stitch)
• to run fast; to drive fast; to gallop
• to spray; to splash; to spatter
• to say without reservation; to call out (e.g. a jeer); to rattle of (e.g. a joke)
• to spread (e.g. a rumour); to circulate; to send out (a message); to issue (e.g. an appeal)
• to transfer (to a less important post); to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch); to demote
• to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter)
• to get rid of; to burn off (alcohol)
• to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre)

auxiliary verb / godan ~す verb:

• to do vigorously; to do roughly; to do energetically

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stretch larger
• to enlarge (photos)
• to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)

noun:

• losing the means of livelihood
• a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended - archaism
• (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook

noun:

• lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

noun:

• hand-clapping performed to celebrate the conclusion or completion of something (3-3-3-1 rhythm, done once)
• single clap after a cheer

noun / ~する noun:

• leading a meeting; presiding over a meeting; officiating at a ceremony; chairmanship

noun:

• chairman; presenter; host; moderator; master of ceremonies ➜ 司会者【しかいしゃ】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to put clothes on (someone)
• to plate; to gild; to veneer
• to accuse (of some crime); to give (a bad name)

noun:

• opening; start; launch
• opening credits; title sequence - abbreviation ➜ ＯＰ【オーピー】
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ ＯＰ【オーピー】

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing one's hands together in prayer

noun:

• triangular frame of a thatched roof

expression:

• Yours sincerely; Yours truly; Sincerely yours - at the end of Buddhist correspondence ➜ 敬具

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to join; to be put together; to combine; to unite; to fit; to close (e.g. of a wound)

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• being moved (to tears); being touched (by); becoming sentimental - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• (falling) softly (of leaves, petals, etc.) - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• becoming slightly drunk; becoming tipsy - onomatopoeia

adverb / noun:

• the deepest bottom of the earth; never; not ... at all; on no account; for all the world; till doomsday

noun:

• hairstyle introduced in the Meiji era consisting in a bun or chignon tied at the back of the head

noun:

• gift for close relatives or friends (given on the occasion of a family celebration)
• family celebration; private celebration

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to model on; to make in the shape of; to represent; to pattern after; to imitate
• to symbolise

noun:

• style or construction of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.) ［もんがまえ］
• kanji "gate" radical (radical 169) - as in 閭

noun:

• riverside willow (esp. rosegold pussy willow, Salix gracilistyla) ➜ 猫柳
• Salix gilgiana (species of willow) ［川柳］ - usually written using kana alone
• high-quality coarse tea ［川柳］

noun:

• technique of holding one's opponent's arm to prevent him from getting a hold on one's belt - Sumo term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of
• to cause to fall; to make decline