noun:

• main street (esp. in a capital); main thoroughfare ➜ 小路【こうじ】
• most important of the three classes of highway (ritsuryo period) ［たいろ］ - archaism

noun:

• deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed - four character idiom

noun:

• secretary (lowest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 四等官
• shrine official (ranking below a negi) ［しゅてん］ - obsolete term ➜ 禰宜

noun:

• withdrawal of loan credit (e.g. by a bank); retraction of credit; insistence on repayment

noun:

• low-class prostitute who was kept in a sort of cage at the front of the establishment (Edo period)

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• thin washer on either side of the guard (tsuba) of a sword
• (up to) the hilt; wits' end ➜ 切羽詰まる

noun:

• baby's play pen; play yard
• Pleiad; La Pléiade; one of a group of seven 16th century French poets - From French

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to plant; to grow; to raise
• to insert; to transplant; to implant; to set (type)
• to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent)
• to instill (idea, value, etc.); to instil; to inculcate

noun:

• guest of honor; guest of honour
• main guest at a tea ceremony

noun:

• utilization of water; water supply; irrigation
• water transportation; navigability (e.g. of a river)

noun:

• branch of languages (i.e. Italic languages as a subset of Indo-European languages)

noun:

• way of hearing; way a spoken statement is taken; way of asking

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• light (of movements); nimble; sprightly; springy
• light-hearted; cheerful; buoyant; jaunty; casual (e.g. clothing); rhythmical (e.g. melody)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a turn for the better (of an illness); receding of symptoms; recovery; convalescence

ichidan verb:

• to make a habit of; to make it a practice to

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day [literal]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think; to use one's head; to exercise one's brains

noun:

• bare noh chanting; vocal-only noh theater performance, with no dancing or instruments; unaccompanied utai ➜ 謡【うたい】

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)

noun:

• lead tree (lead or zinc in a solution of acetate of lead)

noun:

• identifying mark (esp. a mark of comradeship)
• mark placed where two pieces of cloth are to be sewn together (or two pieces of wood joined, etc.)
• verification seal; tally ➜ 合い印【あいいん】

noun:

• pumped storage power plant; pumped storage power station

noun:

• arriving at the final stop (of a bus, train, etc.); reaching the end of the line

expression:

• simply (cannot); definitely (cannot); absolutely (cannot); by no means - before a negative form