noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

noun:

• holding a memorial service for oneself - Buddhism term
• an older person conducting a memorial service for a deceased, younger person

expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~の noun / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• bubbliness (of a carbonated drink); sound of bubbles (of a carbonated drink); fluffiness (of a cake, souffle, whipped cream) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• laughing at an inappropriate time; not being able to hold back one's laughter
• scornful laughter; snicker; snigger - colloquialism

noun:

• six copies
• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan) - abbreviation ➜ 六十六部

noun:

• suckling child; babe in arms; child at the breast; baby; infant

noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大黒天

noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大黒天

noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大国主命【おおくにぬしのみこと】

noun:

• Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stick through; to force through
• to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse
• to make a path between two points
• to proceed in a logical manner ➜ 筋を通す【すじをとおす】
• to let pass; to allow through
• to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.); to show in
• to go through (a middleman)
• to (look, listen) through (a window, wall, etc.)
• to pass (a law, applicant, etc.)
• to force to accept; to force agreement
• to continue (in a state); to persist in
• to do to the entirety of; to cover all of; to span the whole ...
• to do from beginning to end without a break - in the form とおして…する
• to convey (one's ideas, etc.) to the other party
• to do to the end; to carry through; to complete - after the -te form of a verb

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• (a) few; (a) little; trifling; insignificant; small (amount); scarce (stocks) ➜ 僅か

noun / ~する noun:

• starting a business
• opening a store (for the day)

adverb / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• a little; a bit; somewhat; slightly; rather

noun:

• liger (offspring of a male lion and a female tiger) ➜ タイゴン

noun / ~する noun:

• studying two lines together (as a major and a minor)

noun / ~する noun:

• driving off a troublesome person; getting rid of a nuisance

noun:

• name of a note in a movable do solfège system - Music term

noun:

• bojutsu (art of using a stick as a weapon); cudgels

~と adverb / adverb:

• quickly, in a bouncing way (e.g. for a bow) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• return toss (e.g. from a catcher to a pitcher)

noun / ~する noun:

• identifying a severed head
• checking a person's identity

noun:

• pothook (for hanging a pot, etc. over a fire)

noun:

• cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering