noun:

• one's course; one's path; one's road

ichidan verb:

• to place a hat, etc. on someone's head - archaism
• to award clothing to someone as a reward or a souvenir
• to place the blame or burden of responsibility on someone else
• to use something as an excuse or a pretext

suffix / particle:

• a mere (status or characteristic); implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)

noun:

• today and tomorrow; today or tomorrow; in a day or two - four character idiom

expression:

• for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance - usu. ~に or ~で

noun:

• eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); eastern provinces - archaism
• east - archaism
• six-stringed Japanese zither - abbreviation ➜ 東琴
• my spouse ［吾妻・吾嬬］

suffix:

• our gracious (e.g. Queen); honorific that attaches to name of a person or thing that has bestowed grace or favour upon you

noun:

• flurry of snow in a clear sky
• winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops
• skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever ➜ 風ほろし

particle:

• certainly; of course; to be sure; surely
• even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); though; although - usu. with vol. verb or adj. stem
• without even; without so much as - with neg. verb
• at the (least, earliest, etc.) - after an adverb ➜ 遅くとも

expression:

• also (called)

particle:

• well - sometimes esp. an emphatic form of the particle と

suffix:

• first-person plural (or singular) - humble language
• second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to) - derogatory term

adjectival noun / noun:

• poor correspondent; apparent disdain of (or trouble with) writing; someone who appears to dislike (or be poor at) writing

noun:

• pleasures of a pious life - Buddhism term
• entertainment for or dedicated to a deity or Buddha
• pastime; entertainment; amusement; pleasure
• free admission

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• miso soup with pork or chicken (originally boned chicken chunks) with daikon, carrots, great burdock or sweet potatoes; meat chowder

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

noun:

• Japanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan; wasei eigo

noun:

• (crime of) incapacitated rape; crime of sexual assault against somebody who is intoxicated, asleep or otherwise unable to consent or resist - Law term

noun / ~の noun:

• preferential treatment; special favour or benefit; special favor or benefit

noun / ~する noun:

• engraving a woodblock or seal
• woodblock or seal engraver

noun:

• notice or order handed down from above; announcement; notification ➜ 達し
• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) to the concerned parties ➜ 御触書

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold or carry under or in the arms
• to have (esp. problems, debts, etc.)
• to employ; to engage; to hire

noun:

• looking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count)
• katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark - colloquialism ➜ 長音符【ちょうおんぷ】

adverb / ~する noun:

• roughly; approximately; loosely - onomatopoeia
• cutting or breaking apart with vigour - onomatopoeia
• deeply (cut or split) - onomatopoeia
• rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita) - onomatopoeia
• sound of treading on pebbles - onomatopoeia

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee