noun:

• mountain (in hell) covered in swords, which are buried so their tips point upward

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese) - Linguistics term

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese) - abbreviation ➜ ナ行変格活用

noun / ~する noun:

• trot; half run; jog

noun:

• girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family

expression:

• scuttling (to escape in a panic, in shame, etc.); scurrying; scrambling

noun:

• coupling
• shipping; pairing of characters in a romantic relationship (in fan fiction, manga, etc.)

noun:

• civil service competitive examination for some positions in the public education system in France - From French "agregation"

noun:

• Protectorate General of Beiting; Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 702 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

noun:

• waiting in front of a temple to be accepted for training (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• washing of bones before placing them in a bone storage urn (esp. in Okinawa) ➜ 厨子

noun:

• dust, etc. that gathers in the bottoms of sleeves (esp. in Japanese traditional clothing)

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

noun:

• millionaire ［ちょうじゃ］
• one's superior; one's elder; one's senior
• virtuous and gentle person - archaism
• female owner of a whorehouse in a post town ［ちょうじゃ］ - archaism
• chief of a post town ［ちょうじゃ］ - archaism ➜ 宿駅

expression:

• pleased to make your acquaintance (formal phrase used on first meeting someone to encourage them to remember you)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak unanimously; to speak in chorus; to speak in unison; to speak in one voice - usu. as 口をそろえて

noun:

• light-coloured ceramic cooking pan with a lid and short spout
• aluminum saucepan with a handle (usu. wooden) and often with snowflake-style embossed pattern (aluminium) - usu. 雪平鍋

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

particle:

• indicates possessive - occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之 ➜ 乃
• nominalizes verbs and adjectives
• substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases ➜ が
• (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion - often ん
• (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis - female language
• (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

noun:

• crib sheet; cheat sheet - From English "cunning paper"
• large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc.

noun:

• whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle ➜ 鏑矢
• start (e.g. of a movement); beginning; dawn

interjection:

• excuse me; pardon me; used when visiting someone else's house to ask to be shown inside - used by samurai - archaism

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb