noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

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

noun:

• Japanese ko-so-a-do demonstratives (e.g. pronouns: kore, sore, are, dore) - Linguistics term

noun:

• Azuma-asobi (ancient Japanese dance suite that originated in eastern Japan) - archaism

noun:

• Nihon Montoku Tenno Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 文徳実録・六国史

noun:

• bulbil (esp. of a Japanese yam); propagule; brood bud

noun:

• techno-superliner (high-speed Japanese cargo ship); TSL

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)

noun:

• partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)

noun:

• himedaka; gold-colored breed of the Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes) ➜ メダカ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fail to recognize; to fail to recognise ➜ お見逸れ
• to underestimate ➜ お見逸れ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to forget; to fail to recognize; to fail to recognise

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to bring to naught; to bring to nought; to waste

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to tread on thin ice; to go out on a limb; to walk a tightrope; to take risks; to cross a dangerous bridge [literal]

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to knock together; to strike against each other
• to arrange (e.g. a meeting); to discuss (in advance)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to lean against; to lean on; to recline on
• to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested

expression:

• to be a quick worker - idiom ➜ 手の早い
• to be fast in forming relationships with women - idiom
• to be quick to resort to violence - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to follow; to pursue; to chase; to run after
• to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one
• to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pilfer; to filch; to snaffle; to pocket

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to swipe; to nick; to pilfer; to steal - slang ➜ 盗む【ぬすむ】・がめる

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be blurred (due to motion; of a photo, video, etc.); to be shaken (of a camera)
• to waver (in one's beliefs, policy, etc.)
• to shift (position); to be slightly off

godan ~う verb:

• to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas
• to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other