noun:

• seducer; smooth talker; ladies' man; playboy; playgirl

noun / ~する noun:

• picking up women (on the street) - usu. written as ナンパ - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ 逆ナン

noun:

• moderate party; moderate ➜ 硬派
• social story (in a newspaper, etc.); society columnist (of a newspaper)
• bearish trader; bear

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• heavenly god; heavenly gods - also pronounced てんしん
• spirit of Sugawara no Michizane
• Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit) ➜ 天満宮
• pit of a dried plum; dried plum - colloquialism ➜ 梅干し
• tenjin hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 天神髷
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances

noun:

• double-leaved printing (traditional East Asian books)
• sealed-page printing; magazine (esp. pornographic) with long side or all three sides sealed to prevent browsing
• dual page - IT term

adverb:

• in an instant; in a moment; immediately; right away; at once
• suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once

expression:

• only a hero can understand a hero; swallows and sparrows can't understand the aspirations of phoenixes and swans [literal] - proverb - four character idiom

noun:

• (sound of) wind through pine trees; soughing of wind through pine trees
• (metaphorically) sound of a boiling tea kettle

noun:

• man with a gentle nature
• man of delicate features; man of slender build
• effeminate man; feeble man

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• outbreak; spring forth; occurrence; incidence
• generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; origin
• ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state ➜ 個体発生

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to become old enough to understand what's going on around oneself (of a child, etc.); to reach the age of discretion

noun:

• servant (esp. a samurai's attendant)
• chivalrous man (c. Edo period)
• cubed tofu (often served cold) - abbreviation ➜ 奴豆腐
• kite shaped like a footman - abbreviation ➜ 奴凧
• Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants - abbreviation ➜ 奴頭
• enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime)

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - archaism - derogatory term

noun:

• zip fastener; zipper; zip - poss. from 巾着 (きんちゃく)
• chuck (device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to write down (what someone says); to take down dictation; to take notes (e.g. of a lecture)
• to copy out (a text)

noun:

• thing that reminds one of a particular season
• poem about natural scenery; poem about a particular season

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り

noun:

• general policy speech; speech held by the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of a special or extraordinary Diet session

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing respectfully with one's hands clasped in front of one's chest - obscure term
• abdication of an emperor to a successor (China) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a decision by using a circular letter; reaching a decision via a document circulated to all employees

noun:

• thin sheet of silver; silver foil; silverleaf
• censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony ➜ 香道【こうどう】
• Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam ➜ 裏白の木【うらじろのき】

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a torch; lighting up a lamp

noun:

• person who leads a funeral procession with a torch

noun:

• expected date of confinement; expected delivery date (of a baby)

expression:

• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子