noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

noun:

• photomontage; manipulated photo; photoshopped picture - slang - abbreviation ➜ コラージュ
• kora (West-African instrument)
• kora layer; layer formed from volcanic ash on the southern part of the Satsuma Peninsula - Geology term

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it - proverb

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to eat; to drink; to wolf; to knock back - vulgar
• to receive (e.g. a blow)
• to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

~と adverb / adverb:

• whistling (of the wind); blowing
• fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying
• tottering; staggering
• aimlessly; wandering about; roaming
• aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached

noun:

• brown-spotted spinefoot (Siganus stellatus, species of rabbitfish from the Indian Ocean); starspotted spinefoot; tellate rabbitfish; yellow-tail starry rabbitfish

noun:

• stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side
• rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study - colloquialism ➜ 為る【する】
• to send; to dispatch; to despatch
• to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.)
• to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer
• to make (a vehicle) go faster
• to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise
• to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke
• to hold (a performance); to perform; to show ➜ 演る
• to ease (one's mind)
• to harm; to injure; to kill - colloquialism ➜ 殺る
• to have sex with - slang ➜ 犯る

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to live; to get by; to get along ➜ やって行く・やって来る

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely - after the -masu stem of a verb, often in the negative
• to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance - after the -masu stem of a verb

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance) - after the -te form of a verb
• to make active efforts to ... - after the -te form of a verb

noun:

• Buddha; merciful person; Buddhist image
• the dead; dead person; spirit of the dead

noun / ~する noun:

• favourite poem or song; favorite poem or song
• lover of poetry and song

noun:

• original and copy (of a document)
• principal and vice; chief and vice-chief

noun:

• abandonment of the status quo; destroying the status quo; overthrowing the present situation - four character idiom

noun:

• beginning-of-volume label; volume (header) label; volume header - IT term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sensitive to smoke; to be uncomfortable because of smoke ➜ 煙たがる【けむたがる】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get to the heart (of the matter); to come to the main point

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)

adjectival noun:

• important; serious; crucial
• valuable; precious

noun:

• serious matter; major incident; matter of grave concern; crisis ➜ 大事【おおごと】
• great undertaking; great enterprise; great thing

adjectival noun:

• safe; OK - Tochigi dialect ➜ だいじょうぶ

expression:

• it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest; the one who smelt it dealt it - proverb

noun:

• knight - Shōgi term
• keima (in go); knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to find a food one likes by rummaging in one's dish, pot, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• mutual mourning; when one is in mourning, one doesn not make condolence calls or offers of help to others in mourning