noun:

• humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot ➜ 徒侍
• bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period) ➜ 徒士組【かちぐみ】

noun:

• both sides of a ship

noun:

• moving gadget on a pachinko machine designed to add excitement to play - obscure term

noun:

• location of a press conference; press conference room ➜ 会見場

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to make a diagonal move (in the game of go)

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun:

• drums sounded in the morning to draw the crowds to a match - Sumo term

noun:

• living in a housing complex

expression:

• taking pride in one's humility is a form of bragging; he that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted; too much humility is pride - proverb

noun:

• head of a martial arts organization (organisation)

expression:

• a watched pot never boils - proverb

noun:

• a Buddha
• deceased person

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a lot of influence; to have clout; to be well known

noun:

• 1st in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 1st note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• missing a meal

noun / ~する noun:

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

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to offer a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god

expression / adjective:

• being dealt a bad hand (in mahjong, card games, etc.) - idiom
• poor (handwriting) - idiom
• unscrupulous - idiom

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to make a dent in one's purse; to have to pay out of one's own pocket

noun:

• outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (cat)

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; water on a frog's face [literal]

noun:

• a (wide) main street

noun:

• plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

noun:

• trouble caused by a slip of the tongue