noun / ~する noun:

• holding a castle (during a siege); holing up
• confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

noun:

• pleasures of a pious life - Buddhism term
• entertainment for or dedicated to a deity or Buddha
• pastime; entertainment; amusement; pleasure
• free admission

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• speech balloon (in a comic strip); speech bubble
• blowoff; effusion; blowing; venting
• blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to hit (a person); to strike; to beat
• to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to apply (a rule); to be applicable; to come under (a category); to fulfill; to hold true

adverb:

• in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it ➜ 詰まり【つまり】

noun:

• any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

adverb:

• ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?") - emph. form of 一体 - four character idiom

noun:

• occasion; time
• section (of a literary work); paragraph; verse; stanza; passage
• principle; integrity
• node (of a plant stem)
• clause - Linguistics term
• (taxonomical) section

noun:

• skilled control of a spear; stabbing (someone) with a spear - orig. meaning
• victim; scapegoat; someone singled out (for punishment, etc.) ➜ 槍玉に挙げる

noun:

• cueing (e.g. a magnetic tape, recording) (cuing); cue; feeding (e.g. paper under a print head); feed; document loading

noun:

• division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner

expression:

• don't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy [literal] - proverb

noun:

• first quotation for a stock at the first exchange meeting of the New Year
• initial share price during a public offering

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅

noun:

• wait to turn either of two pairs into a three-of-a-kind to finish one's hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ シャンポン待ち【シャンポンまち】

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a new shop
• opening a shop (for the day)

noun:

• (opening of) a wound; (mouth of a) wound; cut

expression:

• throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ... ➜ 渡る

noun:

• subject (of a painting); motif; theme
• title of a painting

noun:

• son of a distinguished family; son of a noble

noun:

• construction of a house (divination term); form of a house

godan ~す verb:

• to ride (a horse) back; to drive (a car) back