noun:

• a tideway; a sea route

noun:

• a laughingstock; a standing joke

noun:

• (a) bunch; (a) bundle ➜ 一纏

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy with a traditional cap for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服【げんぶく】・初冠【ういこうぶり】

noun:

• person in charge of crowning the boy at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to line up; to put in a row
• to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to join (e.g. a list) ➜ 名を連ねる【なをつらねる】・袂を連ねる【たもとをつらねる】
• to link; to put together; to string together (e.g. compliments); to enumerate ➜ 美辞麗句を連ねる【びじれいくをつらねる】・書き連ねる【かきつらねる】
• to take along with; to bring with

godan ~ぶ verb / transitive:

• to make (a promise); to conclude (a contract)
• to act as a go-between; to act as mediator
• to curry favour with - usu. as ご機嫌を取り結ぶ

noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

noun:

• holding a memorial service for oneself - Buddhism term
• an older person conducting a memorial service for a deceased, younger person

expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~の noun / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• bubbliness (of a carbonated drink); sound of bubbles (of a carbonated drink); fluffiness (of a cake, souffle, whipped cream) - onomatopoeia

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stick through; to force through
• to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse
• to make a path between two points
• to proceed in a logical manner ➜ 筋を通す【すじをとおす】
• to let pass; to allow through
• to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.); to show in
• to go through (a middleman)
• to (look, listen) through (a window, wall, etc.)
• to pass (a law, applicant, etc.)
• to force to accept; to force agreement
• to continue (in a state); to persist in
• to do to the entirety of; to cover all of; to span the whole ...
• to do from beginning to end without a break - in the form とおして…する
• to convey (one's ideas, etc.) to the other party
• to do to the end; to carry through; to complete - after the -te form of a verb

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• (a) few; (a) little; trifling; insignificant; small (amount); scarce (stocks) ➜ 僅か

noun / ~する noun:

• starting a business
• opening a store (for the day)

adverb / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• a little; a bit; somewhat; slightly; rather

noun:

• liger (offspring of a male lion and a female tiger) ➜ タイゴン

noun:

• a month or older
• back numbers of a monthly

noun / ~する noun:

• studying two lines together (as a major and a minor)

noun / ~する noun:

• driving off a troublesome person; getting rid of a nuisance

noun:

• name of a note in a movable do solfège system - Music term

noun:

• bojutsu (art of using a stick as a weapon); cudgels

~と adverb / adverb:

• quickly, in a bouncing way (e.g. for a bow) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• return toss (e.g. from a catcher to a pitcher)

noun / ~する noun:

• identifying a severed head
• checking a person's identity

noun:

• pothook (for hanging a pot, etc. over a fire)

noun:

• cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering