noun:

• word form primarily used in spoken language

~の noun:

• open in front

noun:

• Burakumin rights organization formed in 1922

noun:

• tomb embedded in a Yayoi period barrow

noun:

• crying in spite of oneself

noun:

• agreement used to prevent unauthorized or faked divorce by couples in Japan in the future

noun / ~する noun:

• infusing in cold water (coffee, tea, etc.)

noun:

• woman bestowed with the title "in" (usu. the empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language ➜ 院

noun / ~する noun:

• participation in government
• state councillor (in the ritsuryo system); state councilor ➜ 太政官
• vice-minister (early Meiji period)
• Cabinet Councillor (1937-1943); Cabinet Councilor

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come home in triumph; to return to one's hometown in glory

expression:

• storm in a teacup

expression:

• widespread fires in Edo (often after earthquakes); flowers of Edo [literal] - obsolete term

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

noun:

• unrhymed non-metrical Japanese popular love song or limerick in the 7-7-7-5 syllable pattern - obscure term - obsolete term - archaism

noun:

• first thing in the afternoon

noun:

• all the points in question; the whole point

noun:

• one's in-laws (esp. a woman's in-laws)

noun / ~する noun:

• passing away peacefully to be reborn in Paradise through invocation of Amitabha - four character idiom

expression:

• in unison; as one; united

adverb:

• in general; generally; mostly; roughly; largely; mainly; on the whole; by and large

noun:

• gist; point; main idea

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be buried in grief

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• in-store; in store ➜ インストアマーチャンダイジング

expression / noun:

• fly in the ointment - idiom

noun:

• service in the first reserve