noun:

• extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge) ➜ 枢【くるる】

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

noun:

• vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; wraith
• mankind; souls; people ［せいれい］

noun:

• post-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly - slang - humorous term

noun:

• post-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly - slang - humorous term

noun:

• Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street - obscure term

noun:

• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term

noun:

• expansion (in space) of a sales area; increase in the number of beds (in a hospital, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• death from explosion; death from bombing
• bombing (in sales); flopping - slang

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)

adverb:

• going home from work; on the way home from work

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

noun:

• taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
• someone who enjoys alcohol
• place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
• shape of one's mouth when drinking
• tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち

expression:

• prevention is better than cure; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; look before you leap; forewarned is forearmed; a stitch in time saves nine; a walking stick before stumbling [literal] - proverb

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

expression:

• a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband

noun:

• Japanese dock (plant) (Rumex japonicus)

noun:

• Senegal tea plant (Gymnocoronis spilanthoides); giant green hygro

noun:

• Reineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

noun:

• Ophiopogon planiscapus (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

noun:

• Maianthemum yesoense (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

noun:

• Liriope minor (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha); to pay one's respects
• to beg; to make a supplication
• to see (something or someone of high status) - sometimes used sarcastically in modern Japanese - humble language

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of
• to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title); to falsify (e.g. a seal)

noun / ~の noun:

• outside (e.g. of a building); exterior
• outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world