noun:

• lifeboat
• friend in need; helping hand; timely help

noun:

• hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds) ➜ 下町・山手【やまて】
• place near the mountains ➜ 山手【やまて】

noun:

• outrider; herald
• rikishi who leads the yokozuna to the ring prior to his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• lengthy military expedition

noun:

• the Long March (China, 1934-1936)

noun / ~する noun:

• sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar
• rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment ➜ 喝【かつ】

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

noun / ~する noun:

• suicide by drowning; drowning oneself
• entering the water; hitting the water ［にゅうすい］

noun:

• bill; account
• very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• mounting (animal behaviour)
• putting somebody down (esp. in an underhanded way) in an attempt to appear superior; putting somebody in their place

noun:

• establishment
• the Establishment

noun:

• late spring
• third month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term

noun:

• butcher-bird prey impaled on twigs, thorns, etc. for later consumption - abbreviation ➜ 百舌の早贄
• first offering of the season - orig. meaning

noun:

• German silver; nickel silver
• silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods

noun / ~する noun:

• spanking

noun:

• traditional ceremony where the newly-wed wife, upon entering her new home, was hit on the rump with a straw bundle etc., to ensure her fertility

noun / ~する noun:

• being postponed; being shelved; being put on hold - idiom
• putting in storage; thing put in storage - lit. meaning

noun:

• structure of an artwork; pictorial design
• pictures inserted in a book

noun:

• interpretation of dreams; dream reading; oneirocriticism; oneiroscopy
• The Interpretation of Dreams (book by Sigmund Freud, 1900)

noun:

• New Year (esp. first three days) - polite language ➜ 正月
• the first month of the year; January - polite language ➜ 正月

noun:

• family tradition
• wind blowing from the direction of one's home ［いえかぜ］ - archaism

expression / ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make an example of; to make a victim of; to hold up somebody (something) to ridicule; to single out someone for criticism - idiom
• to pierce with a spear

noun:

• metempsychosis - Buddhism term
• saving the lives of many ➜ 一殺多生

expression / noun:

• savior; saviour; rescuer
• the Savior (in Christianity); the Saviour

noun:

• female cook; kitchenmaid
• woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise - colloquialism - vulgar ➜ お釜を掘る
• to crash one's car into the back of another

conjunction / auxiliary:

• without doing ... ➜ ない

auxiliary:

• used in sentence-final position as an indirect prohibition