noun / ~する noun:

• wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else

expression:

• saying all one has to say (usu. negative, e.g. complaints, insults, etc.)

expression:

• waking or sleeping; constantly; at all times; twenty-four hours a day

expression:

• all roads lead to Rome - proverb

expression:

• content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold - proverb ➜ 足るを知る

noun:

• head of a garden; kindergarten principal; nursery school principal; park director (botanical garden); zoo director (zoological garden); head of a plantation

noun:

• wealth, prosperity, and arrogant splendor (splendour); (living sumptuously) intoxicated by wealth and power; luxury - four character idiom

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods

noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

noun:

• old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
• Meiji period women's hairstyle
• type of dance in kabuki ［揚げ巻・揚巻］
• knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) ［揚げ巻・揚巻］ - Sumo term
• constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion ➜ 廃れる【すたれる】

adverb / ~と adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと
• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom ➜ 闕腋の袍
• small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children) ➜ 八つ口

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to spring out; to surge
• to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.)
• to feel emotions form (joy, bravery, etc.)
• to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

noun:

• paper flowers ［紙花］
• paper flowers for a funeral ［紙花］ - archaism
• paper handed out as a means of congratulations in a red light district (as a promise of a future money donation) ➜ 小菊【こぎく】

noun:

• picture of the world; world picture; image of the world; Weltbild

noun:

• flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness
• animal from popular folklore with a white fluffy down made from dandelions and a rabbit's tail resembling a fluffy hairball

noun:

• first runner (in a relay race)
• top-class runner
• vanguard (of a person); front line; cutting edge - idiom
• top runner (system of benchmarking against best-in-class performance)

noun:

• second half of the year; second half of the fiscal year ➜ 上半期

noun / ~する noun:

• intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha

noun:

• first eastern wind of the year; first eastern wind of the spring

noun:

• day of the boar in the month of the boar (the 10th month) ➜ 亥の子の祝

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of ➜ あんな・こんな・どんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ そんな

noun:

• 23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)
• moon-waiting party held on 23rd night of a lunar month