expression / godan ~る verb:

• to reach a situation about which nothing can be done

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to travel on frequently (e.g. a road or path)

noun:

• buckwheat noodles given to one's new neighbors after moving in - from おそばに参りました

~と adverb / adverb:

• puffing (e.g. cigarette smoke) - onomatopoeia
• bobbing (to the surface); floating lightly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• festival celebrating the return of a shintai to its main shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun / ~する noun:

• completely destroying (esp. by fire); burning to ashes
• becoming extinct; disappearing

noun:

• first maple leaves to turn red in the season

expression / noun:

• mother's feeling as she waits for her child to return ➜ 倚門の望

expression / noun:

• mother's feeling as she waits for her child to return

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bask in the sun lying flat on one's belly ➜ 甲羅干し

noun:

• tipping a wheelchair back (e.g. to negotiate stairs)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to sell off at peak price (usu. shares) ➜ 売り抜ける

noun:

• government official next in rank to the sakan (ritsuryo system) ➜ 主典

noun:

• household with at least one member subject to taxation (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• large lever used to control a train - From English "master controller"

noun:

• standard formal wear worn by students, usu. when going to interviews - abbreviation - From English "recruit suit" ➜ リクルートスーツ

noun:

• small folding knife with a rectangular blade used to sharpen pencils ➜ ミッキーナイフ

noun:

• backwater ➜ バックウォーター
• standing with one's back to water (river, lake, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• railway carriage with the air conditioning set to a higher temperature

noun:

• railway carriage with the air conditioning set to a higher temperature ➜ 弱冷房車【じゃくれいぼうしゃ】

noun:

• treating somebody to one delicious meal after the other

noun:

• long strips of decorative paper or leather attached to a matoi ➜ 纏

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; wind (blowing) into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 馬の耳に念仏

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand all around (e.g. bamboo, pines, pampas grass)

noun / ~する noun:

• negotiating for permission to film (in a specific location) ➜ ロケ