noun:

• go or shogi board
• position of a game of go or shogi

noun / ~する noun:

• committing suicide (to remonstrate or dissuade one's lord); preparing to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord

noun:

• young person; young servant; young man come of age (at 16) - archaism

noun:

• master; head of household; man of the house; principal supporter of a temple

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall apart; to collapse; to become useless
• to be completely defeated (in battle); to be wiped out
• to fall apart (one's body or health) - archaism

noun:

• having an open hand and no end or honor tiles (yaku, not allowed in some rules); having only suited tiles between 2 and 8 inclusive and having called tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 断ヤオ九

noun:

• rope that ties the lower end of the sail to the hull (on a Japanese-style ship)

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• comedic style; humorous; funny; comical - From English "comedy touch"

noun:

• rickshaw puller; rickshaw driver; rickshaw man

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to knock or scare (someone) out of his or her wits; to strike a person dumb; to dumbfound; to take (someone) aback

noun:

• children's lunch box of cooked rice and a Western-style side dish (popular late Meiji and Taisho periods)

noun / ~の noun:

• charity; benevolence; philanthropy; (love for) humanity; fraternity; brotherhood; brotherly love; love of fellow man

noun:

• post-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly - slang - humorous term

noun:

• post-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly - slang - humorous term

noun:

• palanquin set with jewels
• money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man ➜ 玉の輿に乗る【たまのこしにのる】

noun:

• gung-ho organization (corporate) man (woman); go-getter worker; hard-driving worker; workaholic employee - four character idiom

expression:

• riding a horse so skillfully that it appears as if man and horse have become one - idiom

adverb / pronoun:

• where; which; who
• anyway; anyhow; at any rate

adverb:

• sooner or later; eventually; one of these days; at some future date or time

pronoun:

• both; either; any; all; whichever

noun:

• pattern; figure; design
• state; condition
• conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems
• model; pattern; example
• indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm) - after a noun
• framework (in go); territorial framework; moyo

noun:

• mamba (snake of the genus Dendroaspis)
• yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - abbreviation ➜ ヤマンバ

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in ➜ 信じる

noun:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era