noun:

• tutor to a daimyo, etc.
• tutor to the emperor or crown prince (Meiji period)

expression / adjective:

• not all bad; not as dissatisfied (or annoyed) as one would have others believe

noun:

• buzzword; vogue word; popular phrase; word (phrase) in fashion or on everybody's lips

noun:

• Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa or Ficus retusa); Malayan banyan; Indian laurel - がじゅまる is originally from Okinawa dialect

noun / ~する noun:

• promoting a product or service; appealing to consumers; solicitation (of business); pushing a product

noun:

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

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to fail to die (e.g. after suicide attempt or accident); to survive; to outlive

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sever relations (with somebody; esp. a relative or spouse); to break off (with)

noun:

• a single tree or blade of grass; every stick and stone (of a place) - four character idiom

noun:

• the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis - four character idiom

expression:

• no one at all; no one, who he or she may be

noun:

• toad with wart-covered skin (esp. the Japanese toad or the wrinkled frog) - colloquialism

noun:

• northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) ➜ 小鷹
• female hawk (or falcon)
• falconry (using a northern goshawk) - abbreviation ➜ 大鷹狩

noun:

• negative film (as opposed to positive or reversal film); negative - From English

noun:

• (ornamental) tip of a scabbard ［鐺・璫・小尻］
• bottom of a bargeboard or cantilever ［鐺・璫・木尻］

suffix:

• indicates storeys, structures, or materials used in a building
• indicates denomination (after a currency)

noun:

• miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines - Shintō term
• medium; sorceress; shamaness

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

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

noun:

• Okinawan dish of grated carrot stir-fried with egg and sometimes meat or fish - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

noun / ~する noun:

• being enraged (indignant, impatient); gnashing the teeth and clenching the arms on the breast (in anger or regret) - four character idiom

noun:

• bronze wind bells hanging from eaves of temple towers or halls (esp. four corners) - archaism
• wind bell; wind chimes - archaism

expression:

• man proposes, God disposes; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• recreational diving; no decompression stop diving; diving at depths which do not exceed 40 meters or 130 feet

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa ➜ 寝殿造り・向拝

noun:

• votive tablet depicting a math puzzle given in devotion to a shrine or temple by a wasan mathematician ➜ 和算【わさん】