expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• collar
• color; colour

noun / ~する noun:

• hair colouring (coloring)

noun:

• calla (variety of arum lily)

noun:

• lie of a (dog's) hair
• type; sort
• lineage; breeding - colloquialism

noun:

• hair of different color mixed into an animal's coat (colour)

noun:

• combover; comb-over; hair combed in stripes across a bald pate - From English "barcode hair"

noun:

• Pele's hair (threads of volcanic glass formed in mid-air) ➜ ペレーの毛

noun:

• crosshair; crosshairs; cross hair lines

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

noun:

• cross-cut sawtooth oak charcoal (resembling chrysanthemum flowers, and used in tea ceremonies)

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun:

• Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to highlight something; to bring something to the forefront

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to drift together; to drift to the shore

expression:

• every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop [literal] - proverb ➜ 餠

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation ➜ 辻褄を合わせる

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to move; to shift; to stir; to budge; to change position
• to inspire; to rouse; to move (e.g. feeling); to influence
• to change; to alter; to deny
• to operate; to set in motion; to get going
• to mobilize (e.g. troops); to mobilise; to deploy
• to manage (e.g. funds)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to call; to invite; to send for; to summon - honorific language
• to eat; to drink
• to put on; to wear
• to ride
• to catch (a cold); to take (a bath); to tickle (one's fancy); to put on (years); to commit (seppuku)
• to do ➜ 召される
• used to show respect - used after the -masu stem of a verb - honorific language - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (e.g. boredom)
• to conceal (e.g. one's sorrow with a smile); to shift (the conversation)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to add; to add up; to sum up; to append; to annex
• to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to pick up
• to include; to count in; to let join
• to inflict (damage); to deal; to give

noun:

• black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm, species of tang endemic to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period ➜ 南都六宗

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

noun:

• draft; draught; cold air entering through the crack of a door or window
• cooling off of a relationship; draft of cold air between two persons

pre-noun adjectival:

• this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker) ➜ 何の【どの】・此れ・其の・彼の