noun:

• face with no make-up; unpainted face
• true face (of a country, celebrity, etc.); real face; true picture; real nature
• sober face; sobriety

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be a good match for; to stand a chance against; to be able to compete with; to hold one's own - often in neg.

noun:

• Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)
• small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate Prefecture)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• small child; pipsqueak; small fry; small, cute versions of manga, anime, etc. characters, typically with oversized heads - sensitive
• short person; midget; dwarf - sensitive
• small animal; runt

prefix:

• worn down (pencil, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail
• White's thrush (Zoothera dauma) ➜ 虎鶫
• man of mystery; enigma

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to resound; to be heard far away
• to reverberate; to shake; to vibrate
• to come (home); to remain (with someone)
• to have an effect; to make an impression

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

ichidan verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to support; to withstand; to resist; to brave
• to be fit for; to be equal to

noun / ~する noun:

• eating with one's fingers
• snitching food; snatched food; secret eating; food snatched and eaten without the meal starting
• embezzlement; misappropriation; exploiting something
• flirting

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

noun:

• formal, usually black, kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono

expression / adjective:

• to be no match for (e.g. outclassed in authority, strength or in debt to); to be unable to act on an equal basis with - idiom

noun:

• turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired) - abbreviation ➜ 蕪
• arrow with such a whistle attached ➜ 鏑矢

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun:

• special licence plate beginning with 8 used by police, ambulance, etc. vehicles
• special use vehicle (e.g. police car, ambulance, sprinkler truck, etc.) - colloquialism

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

adverb:

• hourly; from one minute to the next; from hour to hour; moment by moment; with each passing moment - four character idiom

noun:

• digital perm; hot perm; perm using hot rods regulated by a machine with a digital display

noun / adverb:

• hourly; from hour to hour; moment by moment; momently; from one minute to the next; with each passing moment - four character idiom

noun:

• open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目