noun / ~する noun:

• going up a tower; going into a tall building; visiting a brothel

expression / ichidan verb:

• to invent a pretext for a quarrel; to pick a fight

noun:

• middle of a body of water (e.g. a lake, a river)

noun:

• study (for a role); preparation for a part (in a play, etc.)

noun:

• declaring a concealed kong; forming a concealed four-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth
• shrieking sound; woman's scream; loud scream
• cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ ホトトギス

expression / ichidan verb:

• to angrily reject; to snub; to give a person a good scolding; to give a person a rap on the knuckles

noun / ~する noun:

• hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to gain a reliable foundation and be in a safe condition; to board a large ship [literal]

noun:

• coming out; emerging
• being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)

noun:

• individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

noun:

• sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)

noun:

• Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body - Martial Arts term

expression:

• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb

noun:

• Pseudotriakis (genus of ground shark in the family Pseudotriakidae whose sole member is the false catshark)

noun:

• Luvarus (sole genus of perciform fish in the family Luvaridae whose only member is the luvar)

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural style where the main entrance is on one or both of the gabled sides ➜ 平入り

expression:

• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• general; universal
• ordinary; average; common Antonym: 特殊

adjectival noun / noun:

• the same; no different; (just) as if - archaism

noun:

• dolphin (or other small toothed whales, such as porpoises, belugas, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of oneself (esp. used as an epistolary imperative)
• self-love

noun:

• long (i.e. full-length) pants (as opposed to shorts)

noun:

• Reiyukai (Buddhist sect founded in 1919 as an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism)

noun:

• aschelminth (any invertebrate animal formerly classified as belonging to phylum Aschelminthes)

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原