expression:

• "laugh and grow fat" [figurative]; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile [literal] - from Chi: 打開笑門福自來 - proverb

noun:

• over-demanding parent; parent who makes selfish and unreasonable demands on behalf of their child - abbreviation - From English "monster parent" ➜ モンスターペアレント

noun:

• cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand ➜ 屋台店
• festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; dancing platform ➜ 踊り屋台
• stage prop fashioned after a large building
• framework (of a house, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 屋台骨
• house (esp. a small and miserable house) - archaism

expression / ~よい adjective:

• inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever you do is OK; trivial

noun:

• perpetual change caused by karma; vicissitudes of life; that which is made - Buddhism term

noun:

• life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• recklessness; rashness; foolhardiness; temerity; without watching where one is going [literal]

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• divergent opinions abound; opinion is divided; there are many rumors afloat - four character idiom

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

noun:

• non-fruit-bearing flower
• something that is flashy with no content

noun:

• mythical ball inside the anus that is sought after by kappa

expression:

• one's true purpose lying elsewhere; the enemy is at Honnoji [literal] ➜ 本能寺の変

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• sake made from rice or other cereal which is chewed before fermentation

noun:

• obi that is not tied but merely wrapped around the body

expression:

• when dealing with urgent business, make use of whoever is handy - proverb

expression / adjective:

• inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever you do is OK; trivial

noun / ~の noun:

• a line; a streak; a stripe; a ray (of light); a wisp (of smoke)

noun:

• one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one passage (in a book)
• one matter (affair, event, case, incident)
• the same logic; the same reason - archaism

noun:

• ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip
• walking in large steps
• walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to shine ➜ 射す
• to be visible
• to be tinged with
• to rise (of water levels); to flow in
• to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one ➜ 気が差す・魔が差す

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold up (an umbrella, etc.); to put up; to raise
• to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance) ➜ 指す
• to insert; to put in ➜ 挿す
• to wear (a sword) in one's belt; to wear at one's side; to carry under one's arm ➜ 挿す
• to insert one's arm under an opponent's arm - Sumo term
• to pole (a boat) ➜ 刺す
• to pour; to add (liquid); to serve (drinks) ➜ 注す
• to put on (lipstick, etc.); to apply; to colour; to dye
• to light (a fire); to burn
• to shut; to close; to lock; to fasten ➜ 鎖す【さす】

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to stop in the midst of; to leave undone - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 止す【さす】

suffix:

• such as; (things) like ➜ 何て
• exclamation

noun / adverb:

• as one promised

expression:

• as we know

expression:

• the same as this

expression / ~よい adjective:

• had better ...; may as well ...