noun:

• crossing a river

noun:

• problems pertaining to a nation's script

noun:

• crossing water with a horse

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put stress on a word

noun:

• a strong beginning and a weak ending; an anticlimax - four character idiom

noun:

• governor of a central bank

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to elaborate a plan; to think up something clever for variety's sake

noun:

• van or truck with a display, retail, etc. facility; mobile showroom - From English "caravan car"

noun:

• a cook

noun:

• leaving school during a term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hang a scroll picture ➜ 掛け軸

noun:

• (inadvertent) insertion of a character in a text

noun:

• guardian and tutor of a nobleman's child

noun:

• crest of a noble family

noun:

• a few words

noun:

• (love) letter tossed into a home

noun:

• font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• wearing a sword

expression:

• a curse will rebound on yourself as well; curses, like chickens, come home to roost - proverb

noun:

• baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood - Buddhism term
• baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• pouring water onto a gravestone - Buddhism term
• teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

noun / ~の noun:

• right in the center (centre) - colloquialism

noun:

• priest attached to a shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving a park, garden, zoo, etc.
• leaving kindergarten (e.g. end of day, on completion, expulsion)

noun:

• side of a boat; gunwale ➜ 船縁・船端

noun:

• owner of a mountain
• proprietor of a mine