ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make sure of; to assure oneself of; to see with one's own eyes; to ascertain

noun:

• breath
• sign (of something new and fresh); breath (of spring, fresh air, etc.); vitality

~の noun / noun:

• out of office; out of power; in opposition
• unaffiliated (e.g. researcher, scientist); in private practice ➜ 在朝

noun / ~する noun:

• count; counting

noun:

• count of balls and strikes - Baseball term ➜ ボールカウント

noun / ~する noun:

• count (after a knock-down in boxing) - Sports term ➜ カウントアウト

noun:

• count (of radioactivity)

noun:

• Basic English; version of English with a maximum of 850 basic words

noun:

• the six classes of (kanji) characters ［りくしょ・りきしょ］
• Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)

noun:

• younger princess Antonym: 兄姫
• Princess of the Dragon Palace (from the story of Urashima Taro); Oto-Hime

noun:

• right in the midst of; right at the height of

noun:

• (Edo-period variety of) realistic literature; popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period

noun:

• interpretation of dreams; dream reading; oneirocriticism; oneiroscopy
• The Interpretation of Dreams (book by Sigmund Freud, 1900)

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

expression:

• the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• effecting de facto constitutional changes through creative interpretation of the existing constitution; reinterpretation of the constitution - four character idiom

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom

noun:

• Ise Shinto (school of Shinto established the Watarai family priests of Ise Jingu's Outer Shrine)

noun:

• Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration & Popular Affairs) ➜ 弁官

noun:

• clasping your chopsticks between your hands as in a gesture of prayer (a breach of etiquette)

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• finance; financing; credit transacting; loaning of money; circulation of money

~の noun:

• monetary; financial; credit

noun / suffix noun:

• compilation (of a text); editing

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• volume (of a text)
• completed literary work

noun:

• (former) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) ➜ 総務省

noun:

• beginning (of a book, magazine, etc.); opening page
• beginning (of a matter); start