noun:

• Matsuo Basho remembrance day (12th day of the 10th lunar month, associated with the change of the seasons)

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang

noun:

• scoring hand in hanafuda with one 20 point flower card and six 1 point flower cards ➜ 花札
• something (or someone) that stands out above the rest

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun / adjectival noun:

• tedium; boredom; dullness

~する noun:

• to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of

noun / ~する noun:

• infatuation (with a woman); obsessing (over a woman); losing one's head (over a women)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to coil around; to follow about
• to be related to; to concern; to be associated with

expression / ichidan verb:

• to receive a favorable reputation; to get good reviews; to meet with a favorable reception

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to burst open; to split open; to pop
• to be bursting with (e.g. youth, laughter, flavor)
• to bounce; to bound

expression:

• in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

noun:

• warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud ➜ 土蔵造り

noun / ~する noun:

• building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses

noun / ~する noun:

• confrontation; standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings)
• squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against; holding one's own with

particle:

• or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options)
• ... or ... - usu. in the form ...なり...なり
• as soon as; right after - after dictionary form verb
• while still; with previous state still in effect - after past tense verb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock down; to beat (someone) up - ぶちのめす is usu. just kana
• to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)

noun:

• night express with sleeper cars (from the original color of the trains) (colour)

noun:

• Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji) ➜ 味噌

noun:

• O-saifu Keitai (brand name); wallet cell phone; mobile wallet; mobile phone equipped with a contactless IC card for ATM use, payments, etc.

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold fast to one's ways; to be overly conservative; to not get with the times; to guard the tree stub [literal] - from a fable appearing in the Han Feizi - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become used to; to become familiar with; to grow accustomed to

noun:

• gabled roof; building with a gabled roof; gabled roof construction

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; to twist a baby's arm [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤子の腕をひねる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; to twist a baby's arm [literal] - obscure term - idiom ➜ 赤子の手をひねる

noun:

• simple type of clothing consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head

noun:

• altering pronunciation or meaning; word with altered pronunciation or meaning
• turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 転句【てんく】

~する noun:

• to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to