expression:

• a drowning man will catch at a straw - proverb

noun:

• clay face (made like a mask or as a decoration)

noun:

• signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

expression:

• You must lose a fly to catch a trout - idiom

noun:

• papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting

expression:

• taking a cut from a thief's plunder; vile deed

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
• to unsew; to unstitch
• to solve; to work out; to answer
• to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
• to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
• to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
• to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair) ➜ 梳く【すく】

noun:

• sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan - Food term

noun:

• giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
• qilin (Chinese unicorn)
• Kirin (brand of beer) ［麒麟］
• horse that can ride 1000 ri in a day ［騏驎］ - archaism

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• thread-sail filefish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer)
• skinning (an animal); stripping (a tree of its bark); barking; skinner; barker

noun:

• oil cake (fertilizer made of oily vegetable dregs)
• deep-fried meat (esp. beef offal) resembling a pork rind ［油かす］ - Food term ➜ かす饂飩

noun / suffix noun:

• company; association; society - abbreviation ➜ 会社
• regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)

counter / suffix:

• counter for companies, shrines, etc.

noun:

• plastic packing material with air bubbles; bubble wrap - From English "air cap"
• cap on a tyre valve
• brand of lawn mower

noun:

• confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika) - obscure term

noun:

• large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp - also written as 大頭
• emperor's encampment

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• Buddhist decoration engraved with various motifs, often made from gilt copper (e.g. for adorning the inner shrine of a temple) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• dozing off in the middle of doing something; becoming inactive online due to falling asleep (esp. during a multi-player game)

noun:

• world view; outlook on the world; Weltanschauung (philosophy)
• appearance of a world (e.g. in fiction)

noun / ~する noun:

• trying to think of (a way); working out (how to do)
• contriving (to raise money); managing

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• having great (impressive, commanding) presence; having an air of importance; having enough gravity for (a position) - four character idiom

noun:

• Sannou Ichijitsu Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto: a form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai) ➜ 日吉神道

expression / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to combine parts of two different things into a new thing; to compromise; to balance out