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:

• 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

noun:

• the highest state of one's enlightenment; the highest level one can attain - four character idiom

noun:

• Failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (a woman of) unparalleled beauty; (a woman's beauty being) matchless throughout the land - four character idiom

noun:

• the happiness (good fortune) of being an actor; feeling blessed for being an actor - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• base isolation; seismic base isolation; base isolating; vibration damping at the base of a building

noun:

• display of dolls during Hinamatsuri ➜ 雛人形【ひなにんぎょう】
• Hinamatsuri (March 3rd); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival ➜ 雛祭【ひなまつり】

noun:

• the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace

expression / adjective:

• to have a lot on one's shoulders; to bear a lot of responsibility