noun:

• baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood - Buddhism term
• baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• pouring water onto a gravestone - Buddhism term
• teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep (not necessarily lying down) ➜ 寝る
• to die
• to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to be dormant; to be unused ［ねむる］
• to close one's eyes - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to wish (to do); to desire; to want
• to be ready; to be eager

noun / ~する noun:

• invoking a deity during a festival held in that deity's honor
• medium's invocation of a deity to take possession of her (to receive his divine message or revelation) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

godan ~る verb:

• to support; to become stiff; to become taut; to thrust (one's opponent); to stick to (one's opinion); to insist on

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be called (a name); to be referred to (as) - passive of 呼ぶ
• to be treated to something (e.g. a meal); to be invited to

noun:

• method of patterning fabric by pounding on leaves (or flowers, etc.) placed on it, or by rubbing in dye made from these materials - obscure term
• coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye; fabric colored in such a manner ➜ 摺り込み染め

noun:

• amateur wrestling on a street corner or in an empty field (esp. in autumn) - Sumo term
• wrestling show in a roadside tent - Sumo term

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• alone - archaism
• spilling tears in large drops; crying out in anguish; crying out in sorrow

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pile up; to heap up
• to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to get close; to cuddle close together; to nestle close to; to snuggle up to

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to bear (a child); to be born
• to produce; to yield; to be produced; to be yielded

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to bear (a child); to be born ➜ 産する
• to produce; to yield; to be produced; to be yielded

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to roll up; to hoist; to heave up
• to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone)
• to blow up (dust)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods ); medieval times; mediaeval times

counter:

• counter for numbering the rounds in a tournament

suffix noun:

• fight with ... rounds (e.g. boxing)

noun:

• castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord

noun:

• break (in the weather, esp. rain or snow); interval of clear weather
• lightheartedness

noun:

• glasnost; Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues in the 1980s - From Russian "glasnost'"

noun:

• periodontitis; pyorrhea; pyorrhoea; pyorrhea alveolaris; inflammation of the gingiva (gums) resulting in bone loss

adverb:

• first of all; in the first place

noun:

• playing an entire composition without break; continually playing (in the background of a melody)

noun:

• ninjutsu (fighting art of the ninja); ninja skills in secrecy, stealth and combat techniques - Martial Arts term

noun:

• cheap literature; writing for amusement
• light literature popular in the late Edo period

noun:

• stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot - four character idiom