noun:

• persons or animals added to a picture; incidental details of a picture

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give a warning; to remind (a person) of

noun:

• rising tone (in Chinese)
• (of a Japanese accent) having a high, flat tone

noun:

• chief actor in a kabuki play; star actor; leading actors of a troupe - four character idiom

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

adjectival noun / noun:

• an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

noun:

• umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)

noun:

• eta (Edo period) ➜ 穢多
• administrator of a temple - Buddhism term ➜ 座主・別当・検校
• low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China) - archaism

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
• to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate
• to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously

noun / ~する noun:

• recitation (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); chanting; singing
• composition (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); composed poem

expression:

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

noun:

• in a day; in a brief space of time - four character idiom

noun:

• pulling out of a market; withdrawing from a market

noun:

• exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (of a smell, esp. a good smell) strong

noun:

• light emanating from a sword; shimmering of a sword

noun:

• widening (of a road)

~する noun:

• to widen (esp. a road)

noun:

• paper for wrapping a letter
• margin of a letter

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

noun:

• commander-in-chief; leader; head of a group of companies