noun:

• stubborn person; strong-minded person; obstinate person - Tosa dialect

noun:

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

noun:

• kind person; warmhearted person; sympathetic person

noun:

• capricious person; fickle person - archaism
• stylish person - archaism

noun:

• doorstop interview; doorstep interview; on-the-move interview; informal interview in which reporters surround a public figure and prod him for an off-the-cuff response

adverbial noun:

• in the first place; to begin with; from the start; originally; ab initio

conjunction:

• after all; anyway; actually; well, ...; ... on earth (e.g. "what on earth?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") - used when bringing up something already mentioned

noun / ~の noun:

• beginning; start

noun:

• refugee; displaced person
• person inconvenienced by (lack of something); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.) - in compound nouns; ～難民 - colloquialism - idiom ➜ 買い物難民【かいものなんみん】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to attach; to join; to add; to append; to affix; to stick; to glue; to fasten; to sew on; to apply (ointment)
• to furnish (a house with)
• to wear; to put on
• to keep a diary; to make an entry
• to appraise; to set (a price)
• to allot; to budget; to assign
• to bring alongside
• to place (under guard or doctor)
• to follow; to shadow ➜ 跡をつける
• to load; to give (courage to)
• to keep (an eye on)
• to establish (relations or understanding)
• to turn on (light) ➜ 点ける
• to produce flowers; to produce fruit - of a plant

noun:

• sō-on; Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese (esp. in words related to Zen Buddhism) ➜ 唐音【とうおん】・宋【そう】

noun / ~する noun:

• spanking

noun:

• traditional ceremony where the newly-wed wife, upon entering her new home, was hit on the rump with a straw bundle etc., to ensure her fertility

noun:

• driving on the right-hand side; driving on the right side of the road ➜ 左側通行

noun:

• sending food to someone's house on the night of a wake

noun:

• upstage left pillar (on a noh stage), next to the flute player

noun:

• place on bridge passageway next to the rear of a noh stage - where the interlude kyogen actors wait ➜ 間狂言

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to go on a trip with someone; to accompany on a trip - often ...と行を共に...

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put the scalpel to; to perform an operation on
• to take drastic measures to get to the bottom of something; to make a searching inquiry; to put something under the microscope - idiom

expression:

• based on; on the basis of

adverb / ~と adverb:

• perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; sure thing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• bang on the money; spot on; right answer ➜ 正解【せいかい】

noun / suffix noun:

• sound; noise; report
• note - Music term
• fame ［おと］
• Chinese-derived character reading ［おん］ ➜ 訓【くん】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rub in; to smear on; to spread on; to daub
• to lay the blame on ➜ 擦り付ける【なすりつける】

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

noun:

• cold-suffering bird; kankucho; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes - Buddhism term
• (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori - idiom - derogatory term - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• rōnin; ronin; masterless samurai
• waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ［浪人］

noun:

• person out of work; jobless person ［浪人］
• wanderer; drifter ［浪人］ - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• purity measure for gold; karat; carat; K; kt
• personality of a person born under the element of fire ➜ 金【きん】