expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to throw on the fire; to burn

noun:

• on-the-ground reporter; news reporter; legman

noun:

• sprinkling water (on the ground); sprinkled water

noun:

• exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala - obscure term
• platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); scapulomancy; spatulamancy; armomancy - archaism

expression / noun:

• crowning glory (e.g. winning the last game of the season, creating a final spectacular art work)

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush, with elbow away from the body and arm in the air ➜ 懸腕直筆【けんわんちょくひつ】

noun / ~する noun:

• regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on

noun:

• mark; guide; landmark
• purpose; aim; goal; intention; end
• sight (on a firearm) ➜ 照準器

noun:

• batting
• butting
• intruding on someone else's turf
• having a time or schedule conflict

noun:

• guard on sword, polearms, etc.; flange
• brim; visor (e.g. of a hat)

noun:

• women's obi with a different colour on each side (originally black and white)

noun:

• a service station for cars that run on alternative fuels

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)

noun:

• a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air) - four character idiom

noun:

• extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)

noun:

• wooden box carried on one's back to store items for a pilgrimage

noun:

• mashed rice pressed on a cryptomeria skewer and toasted (used as dumplings in soups)

noun:

• fertile flower (on a flowering plant which also has infertile flowers, e.g. hydrangeas) - Botany term

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese) ➜ 慣用音

noun:

• revised edition (of a book or manuscript); authoritative edition; standard edition; edition incorporating many changes and corrections
• final version of a book as edited by the author; revised edition of a book as edited by the author