noun:

• losing the means of livelihood
• a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended - archaism
• (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge ➜ 妻入り

noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to bear; to carry on one's back ➜ 背負う
• to take responsibility for; to accept a duty
• to be injured
• to owe

noun:

• personnel; members; lineup (of a team); roster; cast (of a play)
• announcement of next day's match-ups - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing one's hands together in prayer

noun:

• triangular frame of a thatched roof

expression:

• Yours sincerely; Yours truly; Sincerely yours - at the end of Buddhist correspondence ➜ 敬具

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to get up (e.g. from bed)
• to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life

noun:

• your native country; your hometown - honorific language
• my home country (i.e. Japan) - polite language
• countryside; country
• daimyo's territory (Edo period) - archaism

adjectival noun / noun / ~する noun:

• hindrance; obstacle; nuisance

~する noun:

• to visit (somebody's home) ➜ お邪魔します

noun:

• demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour - orig. meaning - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• control (of a machine, device, etc.)
• control (over an opponent, one's emotions, etc.); governing; management; suppression; keeping in check

noun:

• taking something out; carrying out
• providing money oneself; paying with one's own money
• corbel - Architecture term
• strengthening under a seam (clothing)

noun:

• sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• beehive; hive; honeycomb
• something full of holes; "swiss cheese" [figurative] - idiom
• honeycomb tripe; wall of a cow's second stomach - Food term
• cast iron anvil stand - obsolete term

noun:

• claws and fangs; claws and tusks
• clutches; devious design; means of causing harm; weapon
• pawn; stooge; cat's-paw
• right-hand man

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of

noun:

• front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls) ➜ ダミー会社

noun:

• preface; introduction ➜ 前置き
• lead in (to a joke, question, etc.); lead up
• payment in advance (by bank transfer) - abbreviation ➜ 前振込み
• swinging (one's body) forward

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 迷い箸

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 惑い箸

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - abbreviation ➜ アイドルコラージュ

particle:

• particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.)

noun:

• string tied to the chest of one's kimono or haori
• childhood (period where one would wear such a string) - archaism

noun:

• crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in New Guinea); Salvadori's monitor; Papua monitor; artellia