noun:

• small roof (e.g. over the first storey of a building, a window, an attached shed or veranda, etc.); overhang ➜ 大屋根

noun:

• heddle; heald; part of a loom, a wire or cord with an eye, through which the warp threads are threaded

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

suffix noun / noun:

• itself

noun:

• one's own body; oneself

adverb:

• originally; naturally; by nature; from the start

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun:

• biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects

adjective:

• far; distant; far away; a long way off; in the distance
• distant (past); remote (in time); remote; far-removed (in time)
• distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone)
• far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.); not similar; way off
• hard (of hearing) - as 耳が遠い
• nearsighted - as 目が遠い

expression / ichidan verb:

• to withdraw from a society; to quit an association; to give up one's membership of a society

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

expression / adverb:

• in all parts of the world; in all countries; anywhere in the world; both in the Occident and the Orient

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• firewood; kindling; fuel
• piece(s) of firewood - usu. まき

~する noun:

• to become a mistress; to serve as a concubine ➜ 妾奉公
• to serve one's master ➜ 主人に仕える

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut; to have a heart-to-heart talk

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to say incorrectly; to use the wrong words; to make a slip of the tongue
• to forget to say; to miss one's chance to say

noun:

• rigging (a ship, aircraft, etc.)
• rigging; gear; tackle
• rigging; in animation, a hierarchy of virtual skeletal bones ［リギング］

noun / ~する noun:

• busying oneself about (something); being on the move; bestirring oneself; on the go; taking an active interest - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); acting as spokesman (for); representing (the views, feelings, etc. of) ［代弁・代辯］
• payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; paying on behalf (of) ［代弁・代辨］
• acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf) ［代弁・代辨］

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to lead a stingy life; to scrimp and save; to pinch pennies; to light one's fingernail (instead of a candle) [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• ending the climbing season; closure of a mountain to climbers
• closing a mine; discontinuation of mining

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing snow down a mountain
• removing snow from the roof of a house

noun:

• place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• repeating a year (at school); staying in the same class for another year

noun:

• secret trick; hidden method; trick of the trade; cheat (in a video game)