expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

noun:

• fresh Japanese sweets (usu. containing red bean paste)
• fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

noun:

• gudgeon (any fish of genus Gnathopogon or related genera)
• willow gudgeon (Gnathopogon caerulescens) ➜ 本諸子
• longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus) ➜ 九絵

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port
• opening a port to foreign vessels or trade

noun:

• new rice field; newly developed rice field
• wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

ichidan verb:

• (for a fruit) to go bad and lose its shape from being overripe or damaged
• to feel listless; to be dull; to be lazy; to look bored

noun:

• thick silk cloth; coarse silk cloth; silk cloth made from coarse fibers (futoito, tamaito or noshiito) ➜ 太糸・玉糸・熨斗糸

noun:

• meaningless words added a song for rhythmical effect; words or utterances added to modulate the cadence of a song

expression / noun:

• good thing; nice thing
• good excuse; good grounds; good opportunity - usu. as 〜をいいことに(して)

interjection:

• interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response - female language

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• serving (of food); helping

noun:

• chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce - abbreviation ➜ 盛り蕎麦

noun:

• order to buy or sell; buy-sell order

noun:

• opportunity; chance; occasion; time - esp. 折
• folding; fold; pleat; crease - esp. 折り
• small food box (wooden or cardboard) - esp. 折り

counter:

• counter for folds
• counter for items (esp. food) packed in an oribako ➜ 折り箱

noun / ~の noun:

• conditions; strings attached; restriction; restrictions; controls

noun:

• something that has a cord or string attached (e.g. clothes)
• having a lover; lover - of a woman
• criminal; someone bound by ropes ➜ 縄付き

noun:

• double-leaved printing (traditional East Asian books)
• sealed-page printing; magazine (esp. pornographic) with long side or all three sides sealed to prevent browsing
• dual page - IT term

noun:

• white
• striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus) ➜ 鯔【ぼら】
• speech; one's lines ➜ せりふ
• white dragon tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles - Mahjong term
• white person; Caucasian - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 白人

prefix noun / suffix noun / noun:

• Belgium - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ ベルギー

noun:

• solitary non-employed person; non-employed person aged 20-59, not married or engaged in study who has no social interactions with anybody outside their family - From English

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to enclose (with); to surround (with); to encircle
• to turn (one's head, heel, etc.)
• to think over; to work out
• to notify (orally or in writing) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• retailing
• second-hand opinion or knowledge; telling at second hand; second-hand telling

noun:

• specialized course; specialised course
• something that is specialized for a certain field or application (e.g. a sauce specially made for zaru soba)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become serious; to take something seriously (joke, teasing); to become irritated or angry (usu. at something trivial); to get worked up