godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone) - obscure term

noun:

• backyard
• background
• room in a store or restaurant not open to customers (often storage room) - colloquialism

noun:

• distemper painting - esp. どろえ ➜ 泥絵の具
• painting made with gold or silver paint (usu. on a dark background) - esp. でいえ ➜ 金銀泥絵

noun:

• sacred wine or sake; sake offered to the gods ➜ 神酒
• sake - humorous term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• all day long

temporal noun:

• last day of the month; last day of the year; New Year's Eve

noun / ~する noun:

• conclusion; execution (of a contract); entering (into treaty)
• fastening (as in a joint)

noun:

• (professional) driver (of a taxi, train, etc.); motorman
• mate (on a ship); officer ➜ 航海士

noun:

• hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach

noun:

• approach (to a castle gate)
• front of a structural member ➜ 見込み【みこみ】

noun:

• drawing a dish towards oneself using one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• corpus delicti (concrete evidence of a crime, e.g. a bullet-riddled body)

noun:

• dwelling place of a god (usu. in reference to a large rock) - archaism

noun:

• returning of a package to depot after a failed delivery attempt

noun / ~の noun:

• far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead - from 断然 + トップ - abbreviation - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• final coat (of paint, plaster, varnish, etc.); finish; glazing
• adding more of the same (of something negative, e.g. shame) ➜ 恥の上塗り【はじのうわぬり】

noun:

• mess; sorry state; plight; sad sight - derogatory term

suffix:

• -ways; -wards - indicates direction
• in the act of ...; just as one is ... - after the -masu stem of a verb
• manner of ...; way of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 様【さま】

noun:

• gait; manner of walking; footwork (e.g. in sport)
• characteristic way of moving, keeping the center of gravity low (centre) - Sumo term

noun:

• Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider) ［土蜘蛛］ ➜ 地蜘蛛
• tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

noun:

• staff who serve or assist customers or visitors (e.g. restaurant, pachinko parlour, etc.) - From English "hall staff"

noun:

• countryside dialect - Linguistics term
• sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period - Linguistics term

noun:

• small purification wand - archaism
• thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods) ➜ 切麻

noun:

• striking on the side; slanting or driving (rain); side sweep; side blow

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death