noun:

• senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion - colloquialism ➜ 御局

noun / ~する noun:

• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.); submission; post (on a forum, blog, etc.)

noun:

• persons or animals added to a picture; incidental details of a picture

noun:

• main building (of a manor)
• central room (of a house)

noun:

• umbrella carrier; servant who carried a long-handled umbrella for a noble

noun:

• temporary legislation; legislation with a specified duration; act valid for a limited time

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give a warning; to remind (a person) of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to offer a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god

noun:

• (a plain citizen) having no special rank or title; being a common citizen - four character idiom

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to wheedle a person into doing something
• to carry a portable shrine

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take a position (e.g. on an issue); to adopt a stance

adverb / ~する noun:

• tensely; tightly; tautly - onomatopoeia
• erectly - onomatopoeia
• intuitively; instinctively; immediately - onomatopoeia
• with a burst; with a crack - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl of rice (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 一本箸

expression:

• that's out of the question; it's just not possible

noun:

• Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen) - called けいさく in Rinzai Zen, きょうさく in Soto Zen - abbreviation ➜ 警覚策励・座禅
• horsewhip ［けいさく］

noun:

• the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year ➜ 厄年

noun:

• dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris)
• snoop (i.e. a detective, a spy, etc.)
• loser; asshole - derogatory term

prefix noun:

• counterfeit; inferior; useless; wasteful

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

noun:

• umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)

noun:

• always conducting oneself as though one were on a battlefield; being combat ready at all times (of a person) - four character idiom

noun:

• pulling out of a market; withdrawing from a market

noun:

• exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text

noun:

• godown within a compound; warehouse within a building complex - obscure term

noun:

• hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handgrip

noun:

• crown (of a watch); stem
• cannon (of a bell)