expression:

• helping and protecting in all ways; acting as a raincoat (protecting from rain) and acting as a hat (protecting from sun) [literal] - proverb ➜ 陰になり日向になり【かげになりひなたになり】

noun:

• Alan Smithee (pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project); Allen Smithee

noun:

• Vocaloid; singing voice synthesis software and related products, or a humanoid persona voiced by such software

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭

~と adverb / adverb:

• in a row - onomatopoeia

noun:

• in a magazine

~と adverb / adverb:

• in a big way - onomatopoeia

noun:

• last (in a contest) - slang

adjectival noun / adverb:

• rummaging (in a drawer) - onomatopoeia

expression:

• in a relationship

adverb:

• in a great quantity

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to receive (e.g. a title)
• to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
• to be blessed (e.g. with a child)
• to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to draw; to paint; to sketch ➜ 書く
• to depict; to describe ［えがく］
• to picture in one's mind; to imagine
• to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a nightmare
• to make a noise during a nightmare

noun:

• black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to load (a gun, etc.); to charge
• to put into (e.g. emotion, effort)
• to include (e.g. tax in a sales price)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang over; to shroud; to enshroud; to envelop; to screen ➜ 立ち込める

noun:

• rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing)

noun:

• rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing) ➜ 糠袋

expression / ichidan verb:

• to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak

noun / ~する noun:

• dying at one's post; being killed in the line of duty

expression:

• midsummer greetings; to inquiry after someone's health in the hot season - humble language ➜ 暑中お見舞い

noun:

• pavilion used as the emperor's habitual residence (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fragrant; to give out a smell; to be enveloped in a smell
• to be radiant; to be attractive

noun:

• floor
• stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player)
• dining platform built across a river

noun:

• sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (often a homosexual or transsexual male) - Linguistics term