noun:

• buying the services of a prostitute

~の noun / noun:

• having the qualities of a leader

noun:

• core
• tang (of a sword, etc.)
• middle of a nest of boxes ➜ 入れ子

noun / ~する noun:

• reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

noun:

• leading a group of people; someone who leads others into a song by singing the leading notes ➜ 音頭を取る【おんどをとる】
• workmen's songs; marching songs

adverb / ~と adverb:

• in a crowd; in droves; in a stream; in succession - onomatopoeia
• crawling (of insects); swarming - onomatopoeia
• dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing; stretching out - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dignity; credit; public estimation; face; honor; reputation
• deed of sale (for a land, forest or house) - archaism
• sale value; selling price - archaism

noun:

• lady's companion (paid female companion of a wealthy or high-ranking woman, esp. in Victorian England) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year

noun:

• main street (esp. in a capital); main thoroughfare ➜ 小路【こうじ】
• most important of the three classes of highway (ritsuryo period) ［たいろ］ - archaism

noun:

• deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed - four character idiom

adverb:

• something or other; one thing or another; this or that

noun:

• (of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state - four character idiom

noun:

• one's old school or university; alma mater; the school or university one attended

noun:

• the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; the demon's gate [literal]
• weak point; Achilles' heel

noun:

• Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body - Martial Arts term

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get a salary (from); to receive a stipend (from); to be on the payroll (of)

noun:

• official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period)
• titled lady (legal wife of an important official) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 北の政所
• government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods)
• clerk working for large temples and shrines

noun:

• right-hand match; ends-with match; backward match; matching a sub-string with the end of a field - IT term ➜ 前方一致・部分一致

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang