noun / ~する noun:

• improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress
• communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank Antonym: 下達 ➜ 上通

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• fishing stand; small portable stand that can be assembled quickly
• stand used to transport people or things (Edo period)

noun:

• savanna monitor (Varanus exanthematicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); Bosc's monitor ➜ サバンナモニター

noun:

• black-headed monitor (Varanus tristis, small species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); freckled monitor

expression / adjective:

• intolerable; unbearable; unendurable
• irresistible; tremendous; out of this world
• cannot help (doing); cannot but do; anxious to do - after te-form of verbs and adj.

noun:

• fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light
• person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

noun:

• document; writing; letter; paperwork; note; records; archives
• document addressed to someone in particular (jargon used in paleography) ［もんじょ］

noun / ~する noun:

• reference; bibliographical reference; consultation; browsing (e.g. when selecting a file to upload on a computer); checking out

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• stylish; smart; fashionable
• high collar ➜ ハイカラー
• hair dressed in a western style

~する noun:

• to dress in the latest Western fashion

noun / ~する noun:

• pardon; extenuation; excuse ［かしゃく］
• borrowing ［かしゃく］

noun:

• borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to write a similar-sounding word

~の noun:

• freshly cut
• freshly tailored

noun:

• tree cut to specified length, especially for corners of a kemari court ➜ 蹴鞠【けまり】

noun:

• demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good - Buddhism term ➜ 四魔

noun:

• (monetary) present to a person in distress; gift of money in token of one's sympathy; solatium

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• someone who is overly concerned with status. Can be used enviously with reference to someone of real accomplishment - Kansai dialect

noun:

• error which directly allows a run to score - Baseball term - From English "timely error"

noun:

• shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine - honorific language - Shintō term ➜ 神体

expression:

• there is no love like a father's; no child knows how dear he is to his parents - proverb

expression:

• I am not going to fall for that trick; that trick won't work on me ➜ その手【そのて】

noun:

• system for showing appreciation to the author of a web-site; virtual applause; web-applause [literal] - sometimes abbr. to 拍手

noun:

• washable chopsticks carried in a case (to be used in place of disposable chopsticks)

noun:

• Shogitai (group of former Tokugawa retainers opposed to the Meiji government who fought in the battle of Ueno) ➜ 上野戦争

noun:

• Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight) - archaism

adjective:

• easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.); easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)

expression:

• the doting parent's purse is plundered; the thief caught turns out to be one's own son [literal] - proverb