noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• parting of the ways; the way to hades; one's way after the parting

noun:

• middle of the road; on the road
• on the way (to one's destination)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to get off; to abandon (a ship or vehicle)

noun:

• preventing a ship from passing or from leaving port

noun / ~する noun:

• snow melting (usu. a system or device); snow removal

noun:

• seal; stamp - archaism
• depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand
• (in archery) left hand ➜ 引き手【ひきで】
• obstinacy; stubbornness

noun:

• opening credits; title sequence - freq. read オープニング - abbreviation
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 主題歌

noun:

• former emperor (or his empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language
• posthumous Buddhist name containing the character "in" ➜ 院

noun:

• public transmission rights (e.g. putting copyrightable material on the WWW or an FTP server)

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• getting big laughs just from appearing on the stage (or screen, etc.) ➜ 落ち

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be meant for each other (of a man and woman); to be connected through fate; to be destined to marry (each other); to be tied by the red string (of fate) [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤い糸

noun:

• adopter; adopting parent or parents; adoptive parent or parents; foster parent or parents

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)

noun:

• Heian era court lady's song (accompanying men's oouta); court lady singing a kouta ➜ 大歌
• ditty; ballad; short, hummable, popular tune from Muromachi era to early Edo era ➜ 小唄・端唄
• kyogen kouta; style of kyogen song based on the Muromachi songs, often love ballad
• noh kouta; unusual style of noh song based on the Muromachi songs

noun:

• definitive piece; definitive (authoritative) edition; last word

noun:

• immediate deal; deal sealed by one word - archaism

noun:

• women's language; word used by women

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the road; centrism; moderation; golden mean

noun:

• the middle (of what one is doing); half-way
• middle way; middle path - Buddhism term

noun:

• touching a wrong card
• making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant)

noun:

• taking a wife by kidnapping a woman passing by on the road - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stretch larger
• to enlarge (photos)
• to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)

noun:

• cursive style of writing or calligraphy

noun:

• prefectural governor (of Osaka or Kyoto) ➜ 県知事