noun:

• front facing display (e.g. books displayed on a shelf with the cover facing out); forward facing display ➜ 平積み【ひらづみ】・面出し【めんだし】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fix one's eyes on; to stare intently at; to study carefully (with the eyes)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to strike against; to collide with; to bump into; to conflict
• to encounter; to meet
• to clash

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to strike against; to collide with; to bump into; to conflict ➜ ぶつかる
• to encounter; to meet ➜ ぶつかる
• to clash ➜ ぶつかる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump; to leap ➜ 踊る
• to pound (of one's heart, i.e. with excitement); to throb
• to be messily written

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to kill (with a weapon)
• to defeat an opponent
• to get someone out - Baseball term
• to arrest; to take prisoner

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (a thing) with; to mount (gem)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to become verminous; to be infested with insects; to begin to keep bad company; to have an (unfavorable, unfavourable) lover

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ 凡そ【およそ】
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares

noun:

• mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan; Beach Stroker

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to become familiar with; to fit in; to adapt oneself; to get used to; to grow accustomed to

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to roll over; to tumble; to roll about (with laughter)

noun / adverbial noun:

• (with) a flash of a drawn sword; brandishing a sword - four character idiom

noun:

• long female underwear (from bloomers)
• shorts with elasticized cuffs (were used by women as sportswear) (elasticised); gym shorts - not ブルマーズ ➜ 体操服

noun:

• bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something; getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it; tackling (a job) with gusto - four character idiom

noun:

• Hexanchidae; family with four species and three genera of cow sharks characterized by either one or two additional pairs of gill slits

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun / ~する noun:

• writing with the brush in one's mouth

noun:

• foreword; preface
• affidavit; written confession (of a commoner in the Edo period)

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument) ➜ 簓
• wooden vertical batten

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky)
• to lack common sense
• to be extremely surprised (by) - colloquialism