noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

noun:

• sub-temple, esp. a Zen one founded to commemorate the death of a high priest - Buddhism term

noun:

• spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• at the point of death; almost dead; about to die
• at some limit (pain, hunger, etc.)

noun:

• (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district ➜ 大選挙区制

noun:

• Mahito (highest of the eight hereditary titles) - archaism ➜ 八色の姓
• you (referring to someone of lower status) ［まうと・もうと］

noun:

• Indian gold-ring bristle-tooth (Ctenochaetus truncatus, species of bristletooth tang native to the Indian Ocean)

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the East; Tang-period Chinese office established in Pyongyang in 668 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the West; Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 640 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Izanami; female deity who gave birth to Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods ➜ 伊弉諾尊

noun:

• wearing next to the skin (e.g. shoes without socks, trousers without underwear)

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

• helicopter money; stimulating the economy by distributing newly printed money to consumers - Economics term

noun:

• warbler flying from a valley to a tree - orig. meaning ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• finding success in life ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• passing the palace examination ➜ 進士【しんし】

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fragrant; to give out a smell; to be enveloped in a smell
• to be radiant; to be attractive

noun:

• Grand Protector (lowest of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 右大臣

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to eat
• to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be haggard; to be gaunt; to be emaciated; to be worn out (e.g. illness, worry)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose sight of (one's companions); to stray from

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to miss (one's chance to ...) - after the -masu stem of a verb, sometimes as っぱぐれる

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be divisible (by); to be divided without residue (remainder)
• to be satisfied; to be convinced - usu. used in the negative ➜ 割り切れない

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand