expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle - idiom

noun:

• discretionary price; price a retailer can set at its discretion - From English "open price" ➜ オープン価格【オープンかかく】

noun:

• large sake cup

noun / ~する noun:

• gulping down a drink; taking a swig at something

noun:

• small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage
• small garden gate ➜ 小門

noun:

• stylishness (esp. of a woman working at a nightclub, etc.); sophistication; refinement; class; style

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun:

• rice paddy with a thick layer of mud at the bottom; muddy rice field

expression / adjective:

• knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things ➜ 要領がいい【ようりょうがいい】

noun / ~する noun:

• staying for two or more nights in a row (e.g. at a hotel)

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house

noun:

• @ sign; at sign

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision

~の noun / noun:

• best; extra-fine; superfine; unequalled

adverbial noun:

• exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far

noun:

• jumping and slashing (e.g. at an enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• teasing; chaffing; raillery; ridicule; jeering

noun / ~の noun:

• merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping; browsing

noun:

• stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; huckster; faker; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise

noun / ~する noun:

• secluding oneself in the mountains; undertaking ascetic practices at a mountain temple
• retreat; off-site meeting

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines) ➜ お火焚

noun:

• stupa-shaped stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters) on a temple approach ➜ 町石

noun:

• primness; prim person ［澄まし・清まし・清し・洗］ ➜ お澄まし
• clear soup - abbreviation ➜ すまし汁
• water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.) ［澄まし・清まし・清し・洗］

adverb:

• straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly; at once

noun:

• lunch; midday meal
• food served at a tea party (tea ceremony) - usu. 中食

noun / ~する noun:

• criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique

godan ~す verb:

• to gnaw at and scatter around; to start a lot of things without finishing any