noun:

• sword hilt shaped similar to the handle of a vajra - archaism ➜ 金剛杵
• plain, wooden sword hilt (as opposed to those wrapped in sharkskin)

noun:

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

noun:

• open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子・明刻子

noun:

• being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to rest against the wall; to lean against a wall

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

expression:

• if two ride upon a horse, one must sit behind; when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war; two great rivals cannot coexist - proverb

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down
• to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

noun:

• the same place; the same address; the said place

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short

noun:

• a fast (dissolute) life; a life of follies; a life given to dissolute pleasures - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done; at the striped mullet's ultimate maturity (when the striped mullet is fully grown) [literal] ➜ 鯔【とど】

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
• to have sexual intercourse - archaism

noun:

• once in a lifetime (opportunity); (a golden opportunity that may) happen only once in a thousand years - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)
• to flatter; to butter up

noun / ~の noun:

• telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; communion of mind with mind - four character idiom

noun:

• non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to search for a way out of a potentially fatal situation; to seek for a way out of a desperate situation

adverb:

• bursting out (laughter); breaking out (applause); roaring; whooping - onomatopoeia
• in a rush; in a surge; flooding in; pouring in - onomatopoeia
• suddenly; all of a sudden - onomatopoeia

noun:

• frame (i.e. of a sliding door)
• crosspiece; bar
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿
• rung (of a ladder)

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

noun:

• kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play ➜ 本狂言・間狂言
• kabuki play; kabuki performance
• make-believe; ruse; trick