noun:

• confusion; complications

suffix noun:

• being gripped by strong feelings; fit (e.g. of anger); moment (e.g. of frustration) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) ➜ 下関条約

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be turned up; to be lifted up (e.g. by the wind)

noun / ~する noun:

• suicide by drowning; drowning oneself
• entering the water; hitting the water ［にゅうすい］

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes

expression:

• the past; bygone days (years, age, etc.) ➜ 来し方
• the course (route) one has come by; the direction one came from

noun:

• Ama no Ukihashi (the heavenly floating bridge; by which gods are said to descend from the heavens to the earth) - archaism

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun:

• knee dislocation
• making somebody's knees bend (by hitting them behind the knees with one's own knees)

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where one person beats a fruit tree (usu. persimmon tree) with a pole while threatening to cut it down if it does not provide a plentiful harvest, with another person responding "I will, I will" for the tree ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

adverb / adjectival noun:

• very; considerably; easily; readily; fairly; quite; highly; rather

adverb:

• by no means; not readily - with a verb in the negative

noun:

• middle; half-way point

~の noun:

• excellent; wonderful; very good

noun / ~する noun:

• mixture; intermixture; mixing up; jumbling together
• contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term

noun:

• indigo wax; cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• (the privilege to have) an audience (with one's lord, a dignitary, etc.); interview (with one's superior)
• one's debut (first) appearance; debut (of a new product, work of art, actor, etc.)
• trial service (of a servant)

noun:

• personnel; members; lineup (of a team); roster; cast (of a play)
• announcement of next day's match-ups - Sumo term

expression:

• seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words - proverb

noun:

• rigging (a ship, aircraft, etc.)
• rigging; gear; tackle
• rigging; in animation, a hierarchy of virtual skeletal bones ［リギング］

noun / ~の noun:

• internal medicine, i.e. treatment by medical procedures rather than surgical procedures ➜ 外科
• department of internal medicine (hospital, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to partition; to divide
• to interpose; to have between
• to alienate; to estrange

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

noun:

• direction; way; side; area (in a particular direction)
• side (of an argument, etc.); one's part
• type; category
• field (of study, etc.)
• indicates one side of a comparison
• way; method; manner; means
• length (of each side of a square)

noun:

• articles of the deceased; article left by the deceased; things that belonged to the deceased

noun:

• border; boundary - usu. さかい
• turning point; watershed ［さかい］ - often ...を境に
• area; region; spot; space; environment - usu. きょう
• psychological state; mental state - usu. きょう
• cognitive object; something perceptible by the sense organs or mind ［きょう］ - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
• intentional negligence
• tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)