noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• goldfish with a shrimp-like tail ［えびお］
• head of a shamisen or lute (bent back like a shrimp's tail)

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

expression:

• metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• going in and out; entering and exiting

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• visiting regularly; frequenting; having regular dealings with

noun:

• income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings
• increase and decrease; surplus and deficit; fluctuation
• fight; trouble; quarrel; dispute
• indentations (e.g. of a coastline)

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; all directions
• surroundings ［しほう・よほう］
• many countries; the whole world ［しほう］
• all around; here and there ［よも］
• square; quadrilateral; four-sided figure ［しほう・よほう］
• four sides (of a square)

expression:

• fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

noun:

• first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
• initials (of one's name)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

noun:

• the point of a sword; the advance of an army

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

noun:

• rights and wrongs (of a case); relative merits (of a case)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group - four character idiom

noun:

• abacus; flat slab forming the top part of the capital of a column - Architecture term - From Greek

noun:

• hundredth of a yen
• coin made of non-precious materials ➜ 銭【ぜに】
• one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency) - obsolete term ➜ 貫
• one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass) - archaism

noun:

• offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
• twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈

noun:

• any of a number of secret societies of ancient China (often opposed to the government)

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of general affairs) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun / ~する noun:

• praying for the coming of a deity
• ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location ➜ 分霊

noun:

• Jim Crow; discrim. term for a black person - sensitive
• segregation of blacks; discrimination against blacks