noun / ~する noun:

• domination; rule; control
• direction; management; guidance
• control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate); governing; influence; holding sway over

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
• reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

noun:

• used women's clothing such as bloomers and high-school sailor-suit uniforms (esp. as a source of sexual arousal) - from ブルマー and セーラー服 - slang

noun:

• dish of fish (meat, etc.), tofu, vegetables boiled together and served with ponzu dipping sauce; pot used to cook such a dish

noun:

• daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) (primarily used in context of the seven spring herbs) - obscure term ➜ 大根・春の七草

expression:

• things depend on how you use them; all things have their uses when they are used in the right way - proverb

noun:

• dried small sardines, etc. used to make fish stock ➜ 煮干し
• person in bank transfer scam whose role it is to withdraw the cash - slang

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be frank; to speak one's mind; to open one's heart; to have a heart-to-heart talk (with someone) ➜ 打ち明ける【うちあける】

godan ~る verb:

• to support; to become stiff; to become taut; to thrust (one's opponent); to stick to (one's opinion); to insist on

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to toss (i.e. one's head); to wave (i.e. a flag); to stand up energetically; to raise one's voice

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have an itch to; to have a craving for; to have an urge to; to have a desire for; to be eager to; to want to

noun / ~の noun:

• the past; bygone days; the previous
• a past (i.e. a personal history one would prefer remained secret); one's past
• past (tense); preterit; preterite - Linguistics term
• previous life - Buddhism term

noun:

• hair on one's head
• head; top of one's head
• kanji "hair" radical at top ［かみがしら］

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something

noun:

• man who is easily compelled into giving a woman gifts; man only used to receive gifts from - slang ➜ 貢ぐ

noun:

• cinnabar; vermillion; red; slightly-orange red
• red pigment (and ink made from same)
• red text (as used to correct documents)

noun:

• method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism - Buddhism term

noun:

• oiled multi-layered paper sheet used to sit or sleep on (during the summer); oiled-paper cushion; wax-cloth

noun:

• teyo-dawa speech; mid-Meiji period schoolgirl slang in which sentence-end particles "teyo" and "dawa" were used prominently

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to sing at the top of one's voice; to belt out a song
• to express one's feelings fully in a poem; to praise in poetry

noun:

• being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on

expression / ichidan verb:

• to state one's opinion; to offer one's opinion; to opine

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to alert; to get one's attention; to draw one's attention

noun:

• dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye)
• indigo (dye) ➜ インジゴ
• indigo (colour) ➜ 藍色