noun:

• shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)
• barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

noun:

• cherry tree in leaf; cherry tree whose blossoms have fallen, revealing the young leaves

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a long hard look at; to look (someone) full in the face

noun / ~する noun:

• going to the bathroom in a group; going off to urinate together - vulgar - abbreviation ➜ 連れ小便

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues

noun:

• manifestation of a Buddha (or bodhisattva, etc.) in the form of a Shinto kami

noun:

• financial adjustment monies; public finance adjustment reserve funds stipulated in the Local Finance Act

noun:

• Śakra (Deva); Shakra; Indra; Shakra Devanam Indra; the king of heaven in Hindu mythology - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to take a lesson from (a wise person); to follow in the footsteps of - idiom

noun:

• Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, species of requiem shark found in the northwestern Atlantic)

noun:

• Śakra (Deva); Shakra; Indra; Shakra Devanam Indra; the king of heaven in Hindu mythology - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 帝釈天

noun:

• negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term

noun:

• chanting sutras in front of a shoryodana (of a monk during the Bon Festival) ➜ 精霊棚【しょうりょうだな】

noun:

• writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips) - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• koma shape; five-sided shape in the form of a koma (shogi game piece) ➜ 駒【こま】

noun:

• worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh
• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in passing another (esp. colliding with oncoming traffic, bumping into a person); the moment two persons or objects meet

noun:

• getting frightened even by a slight noise; hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles; being afraid of one's own shadow - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi) - archaism

noun:

• secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu - archaism ➜ 大宰府

noun:

• street performance in which the performer transforms a specially-made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem ➜ 南京【ナンキン】・簾【すだれ】

pronoun:

• which way; which direction; where - どちら is polite ➜ 此方【こちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• which one (esp. of two alternatives)
• who ➜ どちら様

noun:

• burnt rice; scorched rice; crispy rice at bottom of cooking pan
• woman who hangs out with gay men - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to turn oneself into; to transform oneself into
• to disguise oneself as
• to change radically; to metamorphose
• to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

noun:

• the true, the good, and the beautiful