noun:

• storage method (e.g. for food); storage instructions

noun:

• consensus; collective will; collective opinion

noun:

• iron and stone; iron will

auxiliary:

• I will ...; I'm going to ... - commonly used at the end of ultra-short sentences on microblogs, e.g. Twitter - slang

godan ~く verb:

• to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss
• to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs ➜ 切り金
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds) ➜ 切り金

noun:

• pitch; tone; key
• time; tempo

noun / suffix:

• mood; tendency; style

noun:

• tax paid in kind (ritsuryo period); first a tax on rice fields and households, then on individuals - also 徴 - archaism

~の noun:

• general; ordinary; usual

adverb:

• normally; generally; usually

noun:

• local train; train that stops at every station - abbreviation ➜ 普通列車

expression:

• some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste - proverb

noun:

• lye
• harsh taste; astringency
• scum (formed when cooking some foods)
• (excessive) strength of will - also written incorrectly as 悪

expression:

• faith is best in moderation; worship too hard and you will pass right through paradise [literal] - proverb

noun:

• just cause; good reason; pretext; justification - four character idiom
• duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.) - four character idiom

adverb:

• just (now)
• quite (near)
• unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; against one's better judgement (judgment)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• kapow; bang; slap; clap - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• bulging; filled to bursting - onomatopoeia

noun:

• prostitute (esp. just after WWII) ［パンパン］ ➜ パンパンガール

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tailor; to make (clothing)
• to train; to bring up
• to make it seem like; to pass off
• to turn into a play or movie
• to prepare; to send; to despatch

noun:

• way of training; method of bringing up children

noun:

• instant messaging (messenger, message); IM
• input method; IM - IT term

noun:

• Indexed Sequential Access Method file; ISAM file - IT term

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun:

• reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature ［座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰］

noun / ~する noun:

• counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり

noun:

• hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り

noun:

• playing (instrument); playing method; touch

noun:

• alternative means (alternate); alternative method

noun:

• blood collection method; blood sampling

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter