noun / ~する noun:

• committing suicide (to remonstrate or dissuade one's lord); preparing to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord

noun:

• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
• Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido ➜ 和人地

noun:

• loneliness; desolation

~たる adjective / ~と adverb / ~の noun:

• lonely; lonesome; dreary; desolate; deserted
• harsh (words); cutting (criticism)

~する noun:

• to separate in thought; to consider as independent

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tailor; to make (clothing)
• to train; to bring up
• to make it seem like; to pass off
• to turn into a play or movie
• to prepare; to send; to despatch

noun:

• Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla, used esp. to refer to its dried rhizome, used in Chinese medicine) - obscure term ➜ 山帰来

noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

noun:

• Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3rd, the supposed day of his death)

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to talk about; to speak of; to tell; to narrate
• to recite; to chant
• to indicate; to show

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stroll about; to saunter; to wander; to ramble; to hang around; to linger
• to dangle; to swing

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt; to parody; to alter

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to speak; to talk; to argue; to manage; to dispose of; to carry through; to distinguish; to discriminate

godan ~す verb:

• to sink; to go down; to set - archaism ➜ 没する
• to pass away; to die
• to disappear; to vanish
• to confiscate

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to sharpen; to hone; to whet; to grind
• to wash (rice) - esp. 磨ぐ
• to scour; to polish; to burnish

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to assign; to allot; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate; to assess; to apportion; to allocate

~する verb (spec.):

• to sink; to go down; to set ［没する］
• to pass away; to die
• to disappear; to vanish ［没する］
• to confiscate ［没する］

noun:

• criminal condemned to death; convict on death row

noun:

• post (to a BBS); comment (on a blog) - abbreviation - slang ➜ 書き込み

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a pun on a word

noun:

• dispute over water rights; dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水喧嘩

godan ~す verb:

• to use within an inch of its life; to use every little bit of; to get the most out of

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to blow a conch; to blow a trumpet shell; to blow the war horn ➜ ほら貝【ほらがい】

noun:

• mutual mourning; when one is in mourning, one doesn not make condolence calls or offers of help to others in mourning

~する verb (spec.):

• to fall in love with; to love

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to bloom late; to remain in bloom