noun:

• celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth)
• gift at the birth of a child; baby gift

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• sohal surgeonfish (Acanthurus sohal, species of tang found from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf); Red Sea surgeonfish; sohal tang

noun:

• classical school or style (e.g. of music, baseball pitching, etc.); orthodox school; authentic style
• purist; follower of the orthodox school

noun:

• official size of a tatami mat for measuring room size (esp. a Kyoto-size tatami mat) ➜ 京間
• basic rhythm (in traditional Japanese music) - Music term
• room (in a brothel) of a prostitute of the highest rank - archaism

noun:

• businesses offering food and entertainment; cabaret, club, gambling and restaurant businesses
• sex industry; sex-related businesses

noun:

• door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

noun:

• beginning and end; from beginning to end
• result; outcome; course of events

noun / ~する noun:

• dealing with something successfully

noun / ~する noun:

• one's daily life

noun:

• condition; well-being; state of one's health
• standing and sitting; movements - orig. meaning

noun:

• ko-on; ancient reading; reading of a kanji based on Zhou, Han and Wei dynasty Chinese

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

noun:

• clan; partisans; conspirators; gang; ring; crew

noun / ~する noun:

• participation (e.g. in a plot)

noun:

• one flavour; one charm
• one ingredient (in traditional Chinese medicine)
• universality (of the teachings of Buddha) - Buddhism term

expression:

• the best flowers are the cherry blossoms, the best individuals are the samurai; as the cherry blossom is first among flowers, so is the samurai first among men - proverb

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• unrelated; irrelevant; indifferent Antonym: 有縁

~の noun / noun:

• without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives
• unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha - Buddhism term Antonym: 有縁

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう

noun:

• bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica); traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant ➜ 鎧草
• Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed) ➜ 花独活

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously); namefag - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

godan ~ぶ verb / transitive:

• to make (a promise); to conclude (a contract)
• to act as a go-between; to act as mediator
• to curry favour with - usu. as ご機嫌を取り結ぶ

noun:

• housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker

adverbial noun / noun:

• on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture

adverbial noun / noun:

• first 10 days of the month

noun / ~の noun:

• character; qualities; genius; the makings of

noun:

• the number of days; date

noun:

• spectators; onlookers; members of the audience