noun:

• Muromachi-period texts or annotations of texts used in Zen lectures
• extracting from or excerpting (a classic)

noun:

• shaku (flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb)

noun:

• notice of resignation; (one's) resignation; resignation notice

noun:

• tie up; bind; fastening; tightening
• sum; total amount; total
• judo choking (strangling) techniques - Martial Arts term
• last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping - Food term
• completion; conclusion; rounding off ➜ 締めくくり【しめくくり】

counter:

• counter for bundles; counter for faggots; counter for bundles of 2000 sheets of paper

noun:

• end mark; closure mark - esp. 〆

~の noun / noun:

• familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old stand-by - polite language ➜ 馴染み

noun:

• fermented Chinese alcoholic beverage (esp. Shaoxing wine) - ラオチュー is the Chinese name - From Chinese "laojiu" ➜ 紹興酒
• old alcohol ［ろうしゅ］

noun:

• breaking down antiquated notions; abandoning old-time ways; correcting long-standing abuses - four character idiom

noun:

• guenon (any Old World monkey of genus Cercopithecus)

noun / ~の noun:

• standard; set; routine; regular; usual; conventional; stereotyped; same old ➜ 決まり

noun:

• baby colic (in infants around 3 months old)

noun:

• large jewel; string of jewels - archaism
• Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 勾玉・三種の神器

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to eat untidily
• to eat a bit of everything
• to dabble (in something); to try one's hand at various things

noun / ~の noun:

• predictable; repetitive; being in a rut; set in one's ways - From English "one pattern"

noun:

• crossed fingers and word said to call someone to be avoided as 'dirty' - children's language

~する noun:

• to cross one's fingers (to ward off 'dirt')

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err (from Analects of Confucius)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to set somebody to work in an arrogant fashion; to push somebody around; to indicate someone by pointing one's chin [literal] ➜ あごで使う

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:

• meal with family members eating separate foods
• eating alone (not with one's family)
• food sold in single servings ［個食・こ食］

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment
• profession of love
• confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)

noun / ~する noun:

• love at first sight; being taken with someone at the first meeting

noun / ~する noun:

• describing; comparing; expressing figuratively; modifying; qualifying (e.g. an adjective qualifying a noun)

noun:

• form; figure; condition; state
• personal appearance; one's face and figure; looks

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down
• to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

noun:

• romance (e.g. Arthurian romances) - From French "roman"
• novel
• romance; love affair
• adventurous spirit; impossible dream; great ambition

noun:

• one thin flat object; one sheet

adverb:

• one by one; in detail; minutely