noun:

• tao-tie engraving; figure of a creature of Chinese mythology engraved on bronze ware during the Yin-Chou dynasty

noun:

• name plate on the front of a train, bus, etc.; number plate; rollsign; roll sign - From English "head mark"

noun:

• lido; area on a cruise ship having the main outdoor swimming pool and sunbathing area

noun:

• outer layer (e.g. of skin); cuticle; epidermis; bark; rind; crust; film (on the surface of a liquid); scum ➜ 上皮

noun:

• feeble anger (that one cannot act on because one is powerless); the clenching teeth of a dried sardine [literal] - idiom

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to be hard pressed; to be at a loss
• to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be hard pressed; to be at a loss ➜ 窮する
• to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

expression / ichidan verb:

• to call dibs; to establish a claim; to spit on something (thus preventing others from taking it) [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)

noun:

• home in which a woman stays during her period (or while giving birth) - archaism
• period; menstruation; menses - archaism

noun:

• flower lantern; Bon festival lantern that is decorated with artificial flowers or has a floral pattern ➜ 盆灯籠

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun:

• wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayaura divination ➜ 粥占

noun:

• sense of enhanced value of a commodity or service (e.g. from quality, scarcity, etc.)

noun:

• highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term

noun:

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

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to choose (a thing) at one's own discretion; to use one's discretion in choosing

noun:

• female farmworker; woman working on a farm; farm woman

noun:

• operations (a strategy) on two fronts; two-pronged strategy - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• to be at a loss for words; to be speechless; to be dumbfounded; to be struck dumb

noun:

• poetic sentiment or inspiration; poetic inclination or taste; poem-composing mood; ability to appreciate poetry

noun:

• ingest; process of capturing, transferring or importing different types of video, audio, or image media

noun / ~する noun:

• fine brush or pencil; small or fine handwriting

expression:

• luckily or unluckily; for good or for evil

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be at a complete loss; to be without recourse; to be completely stymied; to have absolutely no idea what to do