noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter)
• top; summit
• surface; on
• before; previous
• superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder)
• on top of that; besides; what's more
• upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after)
• matters concerning...; as concerns ...
• since (i.e. "for that reason") - as ...上は

suffix noun:

• suffix indicating higher social standing - honorific language ➜ 父上
• place of one's superior (i.e. the throne) - archaism
• emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo - archaism
• noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman) - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being evenly matched; being equal with; being on a par with; being well contested

noun:

• eldest and second eldest brother; older and younger brother - orig. meaning - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia
• something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• punctuation marks such as the dakuten
• Chonchon; South American mythical bird - From

noun:

• file wrapper for a patent; correspondence about the status of a patent between the inventor and the patent office

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
• to become intimate (of a man and woman); to get close; to get married - colloquialism

noun:

• multi-tiered food boxes that can be carried by hand - abbreviation ➜ 提げ重箱
• female prostitute who carried multi-tiered food boxes about and peddled foodstuffs (Meiwa and Anei eras) - archaism

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

noun:

• fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe) ➜ 本生り
• weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man

noun:

• spotted surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus strigosus, species of bristletooth tang found in Hawaii, Johnston Island, and Australia); goldring surgeonfish; goldring bristletooth

noun:

• not exceeding; and downward; ... and below
• below (e.g. standard); under (e.g. a level)
• the below-mentioned; the following; the rest

adverb / pronoun:

• this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that

adverb:

• around; about; round about; roughly; nearly; almost ［かれこれ］

noun:

• Protectorate General; Han- and Tang-period Chinese office established to pacify and control peoples on the frontier (during the Tang period, six major Protectorate Generals were established) ➜ 都護・西域都護府・安東都護府・安南都護府・安西都護府・燕然都護府・単于都護府・北庭都護府

noun:

• box-and-whisker plot; box-and-whisker diagram; box plot; boxplot - Mathematics term

noun:

• mask squeeze; unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

~の noun:

• so and so; such and such

adverb / ~する noun:

• so and so; such and such

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

noun:

• forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal - four character idiom

noun:

• hourglass figure; having a good-looking, full-bodied figure (of a woman); big breasts and buttocks, tight waist - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

noun:

• Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail
• White's thrush (Zoothera dauma) ➜ 虎鶫
• man of mystery; enigma