noun:

• sense of humiliation

noun:

• frontispiece

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to betray one's country (to an enemy)

noun:

• inability to live up to one's rank; out of one's league

noun:

• the empty nature of all things - Buddhism term

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank - Sumo term

noun:

• off-season flowering

noun:

• wooden joints
• paired karate kata
• beltwork - Sumo term

interjection:

• bullshit; shit; damn - colloquialism ➜ 糞【くそ】

noun:

• peerage and order of merit

noun:

• sable (Martes zibellina)

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ ひっつき虫

godan ~る verb:

• to behead; to decapitate
• to fire; to dismiss

noun:

• square wave; rectangular wave - Physics term

noun / ~する noun:

• oral instruction
• passing information by word-of-mouth

noun:

• oral tradition

noun:

• Lauraceae; laurel family of plants

noun:

• paltry sum (of money)

noun:

• skewer; spit
• skewering
• impalement; running through (e.g. with spear); stabbing

noun:

• black crested garment

noun:

• thicket; bush; clump of bushes

noun:

• var. of ancient ballad

noun:

• bitter liquid; "bitter experience" [figurative] ➜ 苦汁を嘗める

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to encloud; to make dim; to make dull; to tarnish; to obscure; to darken; to muffle

noun:

• black-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera)