noun:

• wooden box carried on one's back to store items for a pilgrimage

noun:

• flour dumplings in soup - Food term

noun:

• lunch box brought to cram school; cram school lunch box - slang ➜ 弁

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get in touch with

expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to engrave in one's heart; to inscribe on one's liver [literal] - idiom

noun:

• type of yellow carrot grown in Okinawa ➜ 金美人参・人参

adverb:

• in turns; in series; in number order; by rotation

noun:

• (national) road in poor condition - pun on 国道 - slang - humorous term ➜ 国道

noun:

• commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians; great, unifying leader

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• the whole house (assembly, audience) being in uproar - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• in low spirits; dejected; sad

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to grow in intensity; to be aggravated; to get worse; to develop - obscure term ➜ 高じる

noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• child born in last half of the year

noun:

• editor-in-chief

counter:

• counter for songs and poems

noun:

• seven boarding schools established in Kyoto by noble families during the early Heian period ➜ 大学別曹

noun:

• box culvert

conjunction / expression:

• in other words

noun:

• former residence status in Japan for foreign students in Japanese language schools and vocational schools (abolished in 2010)

godan ~う verb:

• to dance in ecstasy

noun:

• measure for volume

noun:

• man in charge of delivering letters and packages during the Edo period

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand

noun:

• for use by men