noun:

• writer (of a poem); composer (of a poem) ➜ 読み手

noun:

• name of a god
• name of a shrine

noun:

• shadow of a bird; sighting of a bird

noun:

• opening of a banquet; opening of a wedding reception

noun / ~する noun:

• payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold
• inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed

noun:

• pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine

noun:

• arm glove; arm warmer; sleevelet
• bracelet
• leather thread on guard or pommel of a sword
• hole in the butt end of a Chinese spear

adverb / ~する noun:

• refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; pleasantly; (a weight) off one's shoulder - onomatopoeia ➜ すっきり
• (wearing, etc. something) elegantly; smartly; stylishly; in a refined manner - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end) - slang - IT term

noun:

• game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head

noun:

• orchestra present at Japanese festival; festival music (may be sung from a festival float)

noun:

• leading wave (of a tsunami, i.e. when a wave crest reaches land before a trough) ➜ 引き波

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea [literal] - proverb

noun:

• middle of a field; middle of a country; field of contest

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to be smashed
• to split; to crack; to fissure; to be torn
• to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party)
• to come to light; to become clear; to be identified; to be revealed
• to be distorted (of a sound)
• to be divisible (without a remainder)
• to go below a minimum

noun:

• noble's consort; consort of a prince; consort of a duke; duchess; princess

expression:

• no time like the present; make hay while the sun shines; it's the auspicious day when you've just thought of it [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)

expression / noun:

• a man among the geese when the gander is away; a one-eyed king in the land of the blind; a bat in a village without birds [literal] - idiom

noun:

• cotton plant (Gossypium spp.)
• batting; wadding; padding

noun:

• unknown plant species (perhaps Catalpa ovata or Mallotus japonicus) - archaism ➜ キササゲ・赤芽柏

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn; to rotate; to gyrate
• to circulate; to send around
• to surround
• to put something to a new use (e.g. leftovers)

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• ... around (e.g. to chase someone around) - after the -masu stem of a verb
• to dial (e.g. telephone number)

godan ~す verb:

• to invest
• to gang-rape ➜ 輪姦す

noun:

• humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits - honorific language - polite language ➜ 機嫌
• safety; health; well-being; one's situation - honorific language - polite language

adjectival noun:

• in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper

noun:

• tearing limb from limb; tearing apart; cutting (a person) to pieces