noun:

• stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryo system) ➜ 封戸

noun:

• alarm clock - abbreviation ➜ 目覚まし時計【めざましどけい】
• waking up; keeping oneself awake
• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap ➜ お目覚

noun:

• ready fire-power; battle-ready forces; immediate asset (to a team or firm); someone who can be an immediately effective player or worker - Business, Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out - also has an archaic reading of かどいで
• starting a new life; starting life anew

noun:

• ballast; heavy material placed low to improve a vessel's stability
• ballast; crushed stone, gravel, etc. used on a roadbed or railway track

noun:

• hotel that rents rooms to couples either overnight or for two hours' "rest" - From English "love hotel"

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• fully satisfied; well satisfied (e.g. with an explanation or apology); to have one's heart completely cleared of doubt or grudge

noun:

• deserted house; ruined house

noun / ~する noun:

• abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family

noun:

• (nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive
• proper place to die
• dilemma; predicament; inescapable situation

noun:

• nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)

noun:

• streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies) - archaism
• being in great demand

noun:

• method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa

noun:

• traditional horse-racing; originally two horses head-to-head or ten at a time, esp. May 5th event at Kamigamo shrine

expression:

• Finger cut-off, ten thousand fist-punches, whoever lies has to swallow a thousand needles [literal]; words said when making a pinky swear - idiom ➜ 指切り【ゆびきり】

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

noun / ~する noun:

• grant; bestowal; giving something to someone of low social standing (by a person of very high social standing)

noun / ~の noun:

• commoner; patriot; humble subject

noun:

• late Edo period commoner opposition movement (mid- 18th century to mid-19th century)

noun:

• swallow's nest
• swift's nest (used to make bird's nest soup) - Food term

adjectival noun:

• clear

noun / ~する noun:

• clearing (a bar, hurdle, etc.) - Sports term
• overcoming; getting through; getting past; completing; solving; settling; meeting (e.g. a standard)
• clearing (the ball) - in soccer - Sports term
• clearing (e.g. a checked box) - IT term

noun:

• rash; eruption (in response to a skin irritant)

suffix noun:

• influence - usu. negative or critical nuance
• crazy about; having an affectation concerning all things surrounding something (esp. a language, a culture, etc.)

expression:

• nothing costs as much as what is given to us; there's no such thing as a free lunch - proverb

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven ➜ 短歌
• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century) ［ながうた］ ➜ 長唄

noun:

• scramble intersection; pedestrian scramble; X-crossing; diagonal crossing; intersection allowing pedestrians to cross simultaneously in any direction

expression / noun:

• what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

noun:

• roadside grass; roadside weeds
• guidance (sometimes esp. referring to guidance in love); guidepost; guide
• Chinese fountain grass (Pennisetum alopecuroides) ➜ 力芝