noun / ~する noun:

• assistance; backing; support
• aiding and abetting (a crime); abetment - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• steaming

noun:

• hot and humid; sultry ➜ むしあつい

noun:

• sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew
• poultry or fish stew with chili peppers and Welsh onions mixed in

noun:

• loveliness; charm; allure; beauty
• colour and scent; color and scent

noun / adjectival noun:

• infirmities of old age
• young and old; all ages - obsolete term ➜ 老若

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本

noun / ~の noun:

• in earnest; single-minded; with intense concentration; rushing headlong into - four character idiom
• one and only; unique

noun:

• puzzle ring; wire puzzle
• exercise where students link crossed hands in a circle and try working together and without letting go

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

noun:

• clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow
• winds and clouds - esp. かぜくも ➜ 風雲【ふううん】

noun:

• train of dress; trailing skirt ➜ 引き摺り
• woman who doesn't work and only thinks about fashion ➜ 引き摺り

noun:

• everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan
• silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out

noun:

• cutting off the head
• shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to wake up; to rouse out of bed
• to knock on the door and wake someone

noun:

• mysteries of one's master's art
• robes and a bowl (monk's key possessions auctioned off at his funeral); "transmission of the dharma from master to disciple (in Zen)" [figurative] - original meaning - Buddhism term

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs ➜ 切り金
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds) ➜ 切り金

noun / ~する noun:

• favourite poem or song; favorite poem or song
• lover of poetry and song

noun:

• sole (esp. the tonguefishes of family Cynoglossidae, but also the true soles of family Soleidae)
• red tonguesole (Cynoglossus joyneri)

noun:

• mangrove (esp. the black mangrove, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza)
• tree with red leaves or flowers

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to strip to one's waist
• to go at with might and main - idiom

noun:

• book of poetry
• The Classic of Poetry and The Classic of History (Chinese texts)

noun:

• boiled octopus - Food term
• person as red as a lobster

noun:

• music performed by women
• women who performed court Bugaku music and dance ［じょがく］

noun:

• Formosan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis) - colloquialism
• blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) ➜ 大瑠璃