expression / noun:

• elephant cage; Wullenweber antenna; large circular antenna array used for radio direction finding

noun:

• bodyguard; bouncer; guard
• bar (e.g. on a door); bolt
• stick or pole used for self-defence - orig. meaning

interjection:

• eh?; what?; oh?
• yes; that's correct ➜ はい

particle:

• strengthens a question, assertion, etc. - at sentence end - archaism ➜ かえ・ぞえ・わえ
• used when calling out to someone - after a noun, etc. - archaism

noun:

• dragon boat (long 22-person canoe used for racing); races with such boats - From Chinese

noun:

• dried giant elephant ear stem from Higo province (eaten or used as a sex aid) ➜ 蓮芋

noun:

• wooden transport ship used on Lake Biwa ➜ 丸子船
• vessel made from logs, e.g. large dugout canoe

noun:

• Mercurialis leiocarpa (species of mercury whose leaves can be used to produce an indigo dye)

expression:

• thanks for uploading; expression of gratitude used primarily on video-sharing websites (esp. Niconico) - from うｐ (upload) and 乙 (お疲れ様) - slang ➜ 乙

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out one's duties
• ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege

noun:

• territory given by one's liege; fief; fiefdom

noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing - also written as 間 - abbreviation ➜ 合い服

suffix:

• together
• condition; situation; state
• -ish

expression:

• sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• taste for both wines and sweets; having a liking for both alcoholic beverages and sweet things - four character idiom

expression:

• Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow - four character idiom

expression:

• amateurish and haughty way of doing business; venturing into an unfamiliar line of business (and often failing) ➜ 士族

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being both repellant and attractive at the same time; being both cute and disgusting - slang - colloquialism

conjunction:

• apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but; however

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to fall over
• to turn out; to play out ［ころぶ］ - oft. as どう転んでも
• to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize ［ころぶ］ - in early Japanese Christianity
• to roll; to tumble ➜ ころがる
• (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret - archaism

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to come and go; to go back and forth

noun:

• separation of church and state; separation of religious ritual and government administration - four character idiom

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) - four character idiom

noun:

• profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view - four character idiom

noun:

• having a long torso and short legs; long-bodied and short-legged - four character idiom

noun:

• scenic sites and historic places; places of natural beauty and historic interest - four character idiom

expression:

• all pain and no gain; lots of pain and not much gain - idiom

noun:

• Saint Christopher and Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis