noun:

• winning the hearts of the people; capturing public sentiment - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• manipulation of information; spin

noun:

• the "wa" column of the Japanese syllabary table (wa, wi, we, wo)

noun:

• category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece ➜ 能・天狗

noun:

• biography of a monk or history of a temple told in pictures

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun:

• mark of liveliness; sign of activity

noun:

• proof; evidence; trace

noun:

• entry of a procedure - IT term

noun:

• rim of a volcano, esp. Mt. Fuji
• wrestling ring - Sumo term
• dire or risky situation with no room for error; sink-or-swim position

noun:

• ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves

noun:

• flower of chivalry (Bushido)

suffix:

• the n-th generation head of a family ➜ 代【だい】・当主

noun:

• love of easy money

noun:

• whistling of wind

noun:

• killing an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; blood offering
• killing violently; bloodbath; victimizing

noun:

• succession of peaks

noun:

• dislike of Korea; hatred of Koreans

noun:

• Minister of the Interior (669-1868 CE); Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945 CE) - archaism ➜ 内大臣

noun:

• day of Ten'ichijin's first ascension to heaven in a year (the 30th day of the first sexagenary cycle of the year) - obscure term ➜ 天一神・天一天上・癸巳

noun:

• order of seniority

expression:

• situation of one's own doing

noun:

• seal of approval

noun:

• assistant chief of staff, g3

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to tire of waiting