noun / ~する noun:

• remaining in office; staying in office; remaining at one's post

noun:

• education in art and design; education in drawing and manual arts - four character idiom

noun:

• substrate (i.e. in biochemistry)
• matrix (i.e. in biology); stroma

noun:

• foil (i.e. aluminum foil) ➜ ホイル
• foil (in fencing) ➜ フルーレ
• foil (in Gothic architecture)

noun:

• everywhere in the capital (e.g. Tokyo); everyone in the capital

expression / godan ~る verb:

• be absorbed in deep thought; be sunk in thought

noun / ~する noun:

• nick in a blade (sword, knife); chip in a blade

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to assemble (in a hall); to meet together (in a room)

noun:

• Showa-era stage show in which a woman would stand half-naked in a frame (resembling a Western-style painting)

noun:

• futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)
• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

noun:

• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)

adverb:

• in a line; in a row - onomatopoeia

~する noun / ~の noun:

• to contact; to get in touch ➜ ご連絡

noun:

• contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message ➜ ご連絡
• connection; coordination; junction

~の noun:

• intercalary; intercalaris; internuncial

noun:

• dried codfish soaked in water for few days, and cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and water (Kyoto speciality)

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to say in a round-about way (not to upset); to cushion the blow; to wrap in wafer paper [literal] - idiom

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• Tochū tea (high in minerals and reputed to be beneficial for weight loss and in cases of high blood pressure) ➜ 杜仲

noun:

• (in Japan) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G) ➜ 十二律・仲呂
• (in gagaku) scale similar to Mixolydian mode on G ➜ 呂旋・六調子

noun:

• Aum Shinrikyo; Japanese religious group responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

noun:

• ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry ［かばざくら］ ➜ 江戸彼岸
• any cherry tree with birch-like bark
• Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana) - archaism ➜ 上溝桜

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick into (of something with a sharp point); to prick; to pierce; to get stuck (in); to lodge (in)

noun:

• juice pressed from a bitter orange ➜ ポンス
• ponzu (Japanese sauce made primarily of soy sauce and citrus juice) - abbreviation ➜ ポン酢醤油

noun:

• Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)
• small pine (esp. one pulled from the ground during "ne-no-hi-no-asobi") ➜ 子の日の松