noun:

• magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其れ・彼の

interjection:

• um...; er...; uh...

noun:

• driving; pounding in; shooting into; implantation; invasion
• falling badly in love
• putting (one's heart) into
• step recording (in electronic or computer music) - IT term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by

auxiliary verb:

• to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in ➜ 読み耽る

noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

expression:

• the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom

noun:

• stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲

expression:

• the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tear; to rip up ［裂く］
• to cut up; to cleave; to cut open (esp. the abdomen)
• to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers) ［裂く］
• to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something ［割く］
• to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye - archaism ➜ 黥く

noun:

• common camellia; Camellia japonica
• tea produced in the mountains ［さんちゃ］

noun:

• directly opposite; right in front
• middle of the forehead
• helmet front

noun:

• ranking wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• in and out; income and expenses; free associations; run of the house

noun:

• politics of fear; terrorism
• reign of terror (esp. in the French revolution)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)

noun:

• gallery (in a theatre); upper gallery; cheap seats; nosebleed section; the gods - four character idiom

expression:

• after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

noun:

• the dead of night; praying all night in a shrine or temple

noun:

• studies in usages and practices of the ancient court and military households - four character idiom

expression:

• innocent-looking; looking as though butter would not melt in the mouth

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up (something as hopeless); to throw in the towel - idiom

noun:

• a drop in the bucket (ocean); a small fraction (of); trifle - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• hitting the maximum value of a numeric counter (in a video game) - abbreviation ➜ カウンターストップ

conjunction:

• in the event that it did not (or does not) exist; without

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to proceed in a logical manner; to go through the proper channels