noun:

• something broad and flat

~の noun:

• common; ordinary; plain; rank-and-file

noun:

• low-ranking employee; freshman; novice; private - abbreviation ➜ 平社員

noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about; approximately

noun:

• count; earl
• chief official of the Department of Worship ➜ 神祇官
• eldest brother - archaism

noun / prefix noun / suffix noun:

• Brazil; Brazilian - abbreviation ➜ 伯剌西爾【ブラジル】

noun:

• on the wane (e.g. popularity of something); decline of one's fortunes

noun:

• bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

noun:

• focal point of a lens in front of the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• type of sushi with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on the rice - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目寿司

noun:

• slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen)

noun:

• attaching (of seaweed or seed oysters) to nets for the purpose of cultivation

noun:

• Thalassoma (genus of brightly colored fish of the wrasse family Labridae)

noun:

• Atelomycterus; genus of five species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae

noun / ~する noun:

• verification of the authenticity of a document (e.g. by seal or handwriting) - obscure term

noun:

• Ephippus (genus of 2 species of spadefish in the family Ephippidae)

noun:

• Jataka; collection of texts on the early lives of Buddha (4th century BCE) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

noun:

• driving on the left side of the road; driving on the left-hand side of the road; left-hand side driving ➜ 右側通行

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to bore; to tire; to weary; to stultify
• to use lavishly (and without regret) - often intransitively as 〜に飽かして

adjectival noun / noun:

• dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)
• not up to the task; (being) out of one's depth - colloquialism ➜ 力不足【ちからぶそく】

noun:

• western Japan; Japan west of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. the Chūbu region and westward ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・東日本

noun:

• start; beginning; build up
• how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game - Baseball term

noun:

• slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel

noun:

• turban shell (any mollusc of the family Turbinidae, esp. the horned turban, Turbo cornutus)

noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断前部

noun:

• orphan (one or more lines separated from the rest of the following passage by page or paragraph break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断後部