noun:

• whirligig beetle (any insect of family Gyrinidae, esp. the Japanese whirligig beetle, Gyrinus japonicus)
• pond skater; water strider ➜ 水馬【あめんぼ】

noun:

• claws and fangs; claws and tusks
• clutches; devious design; means of causing harm; weapon
• pawn; stooge; cat's-paw
• right-hand man

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of

expression / adjective:

• broad-minded ➜ 懐の深い
• (of a rikishi) tall, with long reach, making it harder for their opponent to get a grip on their mawashi

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change clothes (on someone else, e.g. child, doll); to change the wallpaper or skin (of a smart phone, etc.)

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 迷い箸

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 惑い箸

noun:

• helmet with white hair coming out of the top to make one look like an old person ➜ 老冠
• kanji "old" radical at top

noun:

• fish of the genus Rhinogobius ➜ ヨシノボリ
• dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus) ➜ チチブ
• common freshwater goby (Gymnogobius urotaenia) ➜ ウキゴリ
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (fish, Cottus pollux) ➜ 鰍

noun:

• monkey booze; sake-like liquid produced by the fermentation of fruits left by monkeys in tree caches or hollows in rocks

noun:

• purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline - Architecture term ➜ 母屋桁
• main building (of a manor) ➜ 母屋【おもや】
• central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• string tied to the chest of one's kimono or haori
• childhood (period where one would wear such a string) - archaism

noun:

• crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in New Guinea); Salvadori's monitor; Papua monitor; artellia

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to taste; to eat; to drink
• to speak (of); to refer (to); to say

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to talk about; to speak of; to tell; to narrate
• to recite; to chant
• to indicate; to show

noun / ~の noun:

• major company; big company
• front castle gate
• force attacking the front of a castle

expression / pre-noun adjectival:

• every single (e.g. piece of furniture); every possible (e.g. excuse, reason)

noun:

• resident employee; local staff; representative of a local office; employee assigned to an office

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to speak; to talk; to argue; to manage; to dispose of; to carry through; to distinguish; to discriminate

adverb:

• instead of; for; as; in exchange for; in return (for); to make up for ➜ 代わり【かわり】・代わり【かわり】・代わり【かわり】

noun:

• this duty; this task; this job

pronoun:

• I (as the person in charge of this task)

noun:

• gallery (of a theatre)
• audience (at a theatre); the masses; the general public

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be deprived of one's role; to have one's livelihood taken away