noun:

• ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite - Shintō term
• congratulatory address ［しゅくし］ ➜ 祝辞【しゅくじ】

noun / ~する noun:

• cast; mold; mould; casting; molding; moulding; compacting (e.g. in metallurgy) - esp. 成型
• forming; shaping; fashioning - esp. 成形

noun:

• bill; account
• very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division - Sumo term

noun:

• sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period)

adverb / ~の noun:

• reasonably; fairly; all right; moderate - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• hurriedly; in a rush; having barely finished - in the form もそこそこに - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• approximately; about; or so

noun:

• New Wave (esp. in cinema) - From French "Nouvelle Vague"

noun:

• former emperor (or his empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language
• posthumous Buddhist name containing the character "in" ➜ 院

noun / ~する noun:

• going about immersed or absorbed; pacing back and forth meditatively; being deep in thought

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may

noun / ~の noun:

• in earnest; single-minded; with intense concentration; rushing headlong into - four character idiom
• one and only; unique

noun:

• blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to somebody else's fight

noun:

• Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology - Buddhism term

noun:

• gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• moving forward by sliding on one's knees (in the presence of high-ranking individuals)

noun:

• all-or-nothing gambler; power hitter (baseball); slugger; one hit wonder (e.g. in music)

noun:

• captured piece that can be reused - Shōgi term
• person or object held in reserve; available means

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• crime committed for fun; criminal who takes delight in people's reaction to his crimes

noun:

• order; ordering
• beginning; start
• foreword; preface; introduction ➜ 序詞
• opening of a song (in gagaku or noh) ➜ 序破急

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

noun:

• Parapoxvirus (genus of large oval shaped DNA based viruses in the family Poxviridae)

noun:

• undulating melodic ornamentation or embellishment, esp. in folk and popular songs
• unit of timber measurement

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

adjective:

• patronizing; expecting gratitude in return; acting like one is doing someone a favor; condescending ➜ 恩に着せる【おんにきせる】