noun:

• Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery; temple - abbreviation of 栴檀林 - Buddhism term ➜ 栴檀
• Danrin style of haikai poetry (playful and oriented to the common person); Danrin school (of haikai poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 俳諧・談林風・談林派

adjectival noun / noun:

• many troubles or sadnesses or vexations or grudges

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

expression:

• rain or shine; no postponement for rain

noun:

• enshrinement of two or more deities in one building of a shrine; shrine building dedicated to two or more deities

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

expression:

• one cannot understand even a holy man's teachings without study; one cannot know the abilities of a great man without putting him to use; one cannot know the delicious taste of fine food without eating it [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of
• to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

noun / ~する noun:

• recommended sentence; prosecution's demand for punishment

noun:

• visitor's gallery; seats for the public

noun / ~する noun:

• dividing a plant's roots for transplanting

noun:

• prize awarded for a person's effort

expression / ichidan verb:

• to call for somebody's participation

expression / noun:

• gathering that's fun for everyone present

noun / ~する noun:

• beating time with one's hands; clapping to the beat

noun:

• making a careless move (in go, shogi, etc.); responding to an opponent's move without proper thought

noun / ~する noun:

• fishing (i.e. needing one more tile for completion) - Mahjong term - From Chinese "tingpai"

noun:

• the thirty guardian deities (a different one for each day)

noun:

• prisoner (for one to three years under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 徒【ず】

noun:

• path staked out for one (by somebody else) - idiom

expression:

• now or never; time's up

noun:

• enemy's strength or fighting power

noun:

• head of fisherman's group or union

noun:

• a daimyo's (mounted) guards or retainers

noun:

• woman's heart; female instincts or psychology