adverb / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; fresh-baked; fresh from the oven - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining
• immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering ➜ 迎合【げいごう】

noun:

• natural features; scenery
• things particular to a certain region or season; characteristic scenery and customs; scenes and manners

adverb / ~と adverb:

• crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; scraping; scratching - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• hard and crunchy - onomatopoeia
• very skinny; emaciated; all skin and bones - onomatopoeia

noun:

• abandoning artifice and just being oneself; doing nothing and taking things as they come - four character idiom
• unconditioned nature; unconditioned spontaneity - Buddhism term

noun:

• special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels - obscure term

noun:

• special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels - obscure term ➜ 石帯

noun:

• special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels ➜ 石帯

noun:

• the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features; the two main items (attractions) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• (coincidence of) mutual sentiment; sharing the same sentiment with somebody; finding oneself on the same wavelength as somebody; seeing eye to eye - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• scoring the first point; winning the first game ［せんしょう］

noun:

• lucky day in the morning, but not in the afternoon ➜ 六曜

noun:

• heavenly god; heavenly gods - also pronounced てんしん
• spirit of Sugawara no Michizane
• Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit) ➜ 天満宮
• pit of a dried plum; dried plum - colloquialism ➜ 梅干し
• tenjin hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 天神髷
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)

noun / ~の noun:

• eventful times for the nation; the nation being in turmoil; the storm clouds gathering in the land - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth); gasping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• flapping (e.g. shoe sole); gaping open and shut - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• heartily (eating); devouring; munching; gobbling - onomatopoeia

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to commiserate; to pity; to have mercy on; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
• to enjoy the beauty of; to appreciate (e.g. the moon, flowers) ［哀れむ］ - archaism

expression:

• starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught - proverb ➜ 泥縄【どろなわ】・泥縄式【どろなわしき】

noun:

• endpaper (of a book); end-paper
• facing (material sewn on the inside edge of a garment)
• looking back; triumphing over (a rival) ➜ 見返す

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to become old enough to understand what's going on around oneself (of a child, etc.); to reach the age of discretion

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, and the rope is tightened until their ankles touch their neck)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to shake; to tremble; to sway; to flicker
• to be unsettled; to be unstable; to fluctuate; to waver (e.g. between options); to vacillate; to seesaw

noun:

• trunk; torso; body; abdomen; waist
• plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo)
• frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.); hull (of a ship)

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from both speaker and listener); over there; yonder ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・其方
• that one (something physically distant from both speaker and listener, or something not visible but known by both speaker and listener); that
• that person (someone physically distant from both speaker and listener, or someone not present but known by both speaker and listener) - あちら is pol.
• there (place distant from both speaker and listener); over there; foreign country (esp. a Western nation)

expression:

• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

noun:

• skin
• condom - colloquialism
• skin (e.g. alternative look and feel for interface of a program) - IT term