noun:

• everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan
• silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation) - colloquialism ➜ こちらの話
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel down; to feel sad; to be depressed; to be in low spirits
• to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition
• to fall into (e.g. a hole)

noun:

• lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room
• cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 火鉢

noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun:

• things on hand; things in stock
• money on hand; money in one's wallet

~の noun:

• on hand; in stock

expression:

• There's no point in staying (here) any longer; There's no point in prolonging a (the) visit; There's no point in extending one's stay - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to challenge (esp. in a lawsuit); to take on an opponent (in negotiations, contest, etc.)

noun / prefix noun:

• fried seafood or vegetables in general; deep-frying

noun:

• fly ball - Baseball term
• fly (esp. in fishing bait)
• flying

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

noun:

• countries that currently use Chinese characters in their writing, or have used in their recent past - abbreviation ➜ 漢字文化圏【かんじぶんかけん】

noun:

• dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put; to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally

godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:

• to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
• to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• absorbed in; immersed in; crazy about; obsessed with; devoted to

noun / adjectival noun:

• forgetting oneself; daze; trance; ecstasy; delirium

noun:

• within a dream; while dreaming

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

noun:

• set of problems (e.g. in a textbook) in which previously learned skills are applied to real world situations; practical assessment

noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drop-by-drop; dripping; dribbling; in a trickle - onomatopoeia
• incessantly (esp. speaking, e.g. complaints, compliments); in great profusion - onomatopoeia

noun:

• second in command
• fourth athlete to compete in a 5-on-5 team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

expression / interjection:

• time in - said by a referee at the end of a time out - Sports term - From English "no time" ➜ タイム

expression:

• making a move immediately in a timed game (shogi, go, etc.)