noun:

• Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; Chinese plum
• lowest (of a three-tier ranking system) ➜ 竹【たけ】・松【まつ】

noun / ~する noun:

• making use of; application; practical use; effective management (e.g. of funds)
• operation; handling; steering (esp. a boat)

noun:

• start; beginning; build up
• how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game - Baseball term

noun:

• lower tier; lower step; lower column; lower berth; bottom shelf
• low position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)

noun:

• (sheet) music; (musical) note; (musical) score
• genealogy; family tree
• record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 棋譜

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:

• person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler

noun / ~する noun:

• parting in tears; tearful parting; coming to grief; having to take a different tack; going separate ways

noun / ~する noun:

• making a country prosperous; prosperous country
• Kōkoku era (of the Southern Court) (1340.4.28-1346.12.8)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to have a chat with; to exchange words or promises; to promise; to get engaged

noun:

• store that has been gone out of business; household that lives without carrying on a business

~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:

• Muromachi-period texts or annotations of texts used in Zen lectures
• extracting from or excerpting (a classic)

noun:

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

noun:

• tapir (Tapirus spp.)
• mo; mythological Chinese chimera similar to a tapir, said to devour bad dreams

expression:

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

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of a limited number of verbs ending in "ru" (in written Japanese)

noun:

• conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "i" or "u" for every conjugation)

noun:

• conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of a limited number of verbs ending in "ru" (in written Japanese) - abbreviation ➜ ラ行変格活用

expression:

• inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony (name derived the Akutagawa Ryūnosuke story "In A Grove")

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)

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun:

• fat-bodied, small-mouthed earthenware jar for carrying water
• water vessel used for a baby's first bath