noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

noun:

• central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); mainstay; chief support; leader
• chief; boss; leader; head
• master carpenter
• beams and ridge supports of a roof - orig. meaning

noun:

• inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc. - Buddhism term

noun:

• rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance ➜ 大手【おおて】
• one who arrests
• force attacking the rear of a castle ➜ 大手【おおて】
• (opponent's) weak point

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

noun:

• water ball; large inflatable sphere that allows a person inside it to walk across the surface of a body of water

noun / ~する noun:

• digestion (of food)
• digestion (of information); assimilation; thorough understanding
• consumption; absorption; using up; meeting (e.g. a quota); completion
• losing one's form and turning into something else - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• being jealous of somebody over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students) - slang - humorous term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to spill; to fall out of; to overflow
• to peek through; to become visible (although normally not)
• to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

noun:

• skeleton (of a vertebrate, ship, building, etc.)
• transparency (revealing the inner workings of a device); translucency; see-through body
• skeleton (sport)
• skeleton (code) - IT term

noun:

• the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine - Buddhism term ➜ 輪宝・転法輪

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox) - obscure term ➜ 宇賀神

noun:

• custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice

noun:

• ridge (in mountain-climbing); edge of a rock face - From German "Kante"
• take-off point (ski-jump)
• edge of a ski

noun:

• advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy ➜ 消費者主権
• consumer spending; high levels of consumption

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be enrolled (in a college, course of study, etc.); to be a member (of an organization)

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• drinking like a fish and eat like a horse; eating mountains of food and drink oceans of liquor - four character idiom

noun:

• (time of) extreme cold
• "major cold" solar term (approx. Jan 20, roughly the coldest time of the year) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• biting midge (any insect of family Ceratopogonidae); no-see-um - obscure term ➜ 糠蚊
• plant hopper (any insect of family Delphacidae) ➜ 浮塵子

noun:

• using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)

noun:

• eastern Japan; Japan east of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. east of the Chūbu region ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・西日本

noun:

• club of rabble-rousing reckless-driving delinquents; biker gang; group of hot rodders; biker gang member; hot rodder - colloquialism ➜ 暴走族【ぼうそうぞく】

noun:

• assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.) - Buddhism term
• (monks and laity of) the Jishu sect - Buddhism term ➜ 時宗

noun:

• advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy ➜ コンシューマリズム
• consumer spending; high levels of consumption ➜ コンシューマリズム