noun:

• consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to pour (into a vessel); to fill (a cup, bowl, etc.) with; to dish out (food or drink)

noun:

• white night (i.e. at the North or South Pole); short night; night under the midnight sun

noun:

• catalpa bow; spirit bow; bow used to summon spirits, made of Japanese cherry birch, catalpa, or other wood - Shintō term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take down in notes (meeting minutes, etc)
• to apply concepts, ideas, etc. to specific processes or methods

noun:

• Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares

noun:

• retort; sealed plastic pouch typically containing ready-made sauce or stew; boil-in-the-bag - Food term
• retort; glass vessel used for distillation (now largely obs.) - Chemistry term - From Dutch

noun:

• collective goods (i.e. goods or services such as parks, highways, etc. which could be supplied privately, but are usually provided by the government) ➜ 公共財

noun:

• Hexanchidae; family with four species and three genera of cow sharks characterized by either one or two additional pairs of gill slits

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
• meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
• equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• oyakodon-like dish made with something other than chicken; bowl of rice with cooked meat (esp. beef or pork) and eggs on top - Food term ➜ 親子丼

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun:

• elegance; grace; refinement; class; dignity

suffix:

• article; item

suffix / counter:

• counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant) - sometimes pronounced ぴん

noun:

• scaffold; scaffolding
• foothold; footing
• foothold (e.g. in business); foundation; base
• convenience for transportation; convenience of access (by road or rail) ➜ 交通の便【こうつうのべん】

noun:

• phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly") - e.g., じめじめ、ゆったり - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb:

• looking up to a person as one's own master or model; being influenced by a person through his works; idolizing

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• official post; regular post; permanent office
• principal post (as opposed to secondary post)

pronoun:

• I (of someone in government or the civil service)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - From Chinese "mianma" ➜ 支那竹

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term