noun:

• pad placed below the sheet on which a seal is to be pressed - used to make the seal's imprint clearer

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perversity; perverse person; contrary person; contrarian

noun:

• antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore
• demon under the feet of temple guardian statues

noun:

• final three bouts on the last day of a tournament - Sumo term

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to break on the shore and retreat (of a wave)

noun:

• kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin) ➜ 宝

noun:

• Yama's pole (with a human head on the top) - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• win on the last discard of a round - Mahjong term

noun / ~の noun:

• thrifty person; stingy person; tight-fisted person

noun:

• incompetent person; incapable person
• person without legal capacity - Law term

noun:

• request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person

noun:

• child who has survived the suicide of a parent; child of a person who committed suicide

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

noun:

• tōsō-on; Tang-Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese ➜ 唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• child; small person Antonym: 大人【おとな】
• dwarf; midget ［こびと］ Antonym: 巨人
• narrow-minded person; mean person ［しょうじん］ Antonym: 君子

noun:

• attitudinal expression (indicating the speaker's respect, contempt, etc. for the listener or the person being discussed)

expression:

• to wait for a good opportunity; to come down on the right side of the fence; to see which way the cat jumps; to wait and see at Horagatoge [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• (apostatizing through) trampling on a fumi-e; trampling on a tablet bearing Christian images ➜ 踏み絵

noun:

• allegiance test; loyalty test ➜ 踏み絵

noun:

• ordinary person; average person; mediocre person

noun:

• well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person

noun:

• moody person; temperamental person; fickle person ➜ 天気屋

noun:

• lonesome person; unwanted person; poverty-stricken person

noun:

• Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

expression:

• there must be a clear distinction between the upper and lower classes; even new shoes must not be worn on the head [literal] - proverb

expression / noun:

• person of strong constitution unexpectedly falling ill; sickness of a stout man; the devil getting sunstroke [literal]