noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

noun:

• palace
• tonic (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women) - abbreviation ➜ 宮刑

noun / suffix noun:

• zodiacal sign ➜ 十二宮

counter:

• counter for ships (large boats)
• counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen)
• counter for fish, birds, arrows, etc.

noun:

• spirits of war dead
• person of great ability; soul of a talented person

noun:

• final paragraph; final paragraphs; the end of a story of block of text

noun:

• gently sloping mountain (of the less rugged mountain of a pair of mountains) ➜ 男山

noun:

• stripping of honours (as a means of punishment); stripping of rights; public humiliation

noun:

• (a) touch of; tinge of; wreath (e.g. of smoke)
• one stroke; one brush

noun:

• chairman of executive council (usu. of a party); chairman of the general affairs committee

noun:

• rice, meat and vegetable dish served in a small pot

noun / ~する noun:

• solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause - four character idiom

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; an easygoing and indifferent person; a pococurante - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• considering (a matter) carefully and silently; being lost in silent contemplation - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• being dissolute and unruly; ruining oneself by leading a fast life - four character idiom

noun:

• light shower on a night in late autumn and early winter - four character idiom

noun:

• maneuver to draw a sword from its scabbard and cut immediately - Martial Arts term

noun:

• seal used to open and associated with a bank account

noun:

• metal collar mounted between a sword blade and the hand guard

noun:

• giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 降り【おり】

noun:

• low-ranking samurai - abbreviation - derogatory term ➜ 三一侍
• rolling three and one (in a dice game) - orig. meaning ➜ ピン

noun / ~する noun:

• sprinkling salt on a raw vegetable and rubbing it in - Food term ➜ 揉む【もむ】

noun:

• absentee appointment to a distant administrative post (Nara and Heian periods) - archaism

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

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• jingling - onomatopoeia
• (sound of) many people clapping together - onomatopoeia ➜ 手締め
• healthy; robust; active; hale and hearty; handling one's work well - onomatopoeia
• concluding successfully - onomatopoeia
• boiling (of water) - archaism - onomatopoeia