noun:

• ritual performance (usually around New Year) to pray for a successful rice harvest in the coming year - Shintō term

noun:

• greater palace; area centered on the inner palace, home to various administrative bodies (in Heian period Kyoto) ➜ 内裏

noun:

• object or shape that symbolizes the vow of a buddha or bodhisattva to save all life - Buddhism term

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple - abbreviation ➜ 供奉僧
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

noun:

• fruits left on a tree during winter (supposedly causing more fruits to appear in the next season) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• delivery to the wrong house or person (email, postal items, etc.); false notification; mistaken notification; notifying somebody incorrectly

expression:

• you can do anything if you set your mind to; even an ant's thoughts reach the heavens [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly
• to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)

noun:

• priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• sitting position similar to seiza (but with both legs splayed out slightly and one's backside resting directly on the ground) ➜ 正座【せいざ】

noun / ~する noun:

• dozing off in the middle of doing something; becoming inactive online due to falling asleep (esp. during a multi-player game)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to knock or scare (someone) out of his or her wits; to strike a person dumb; to dumbfound; to take (someone) aback

expression / adjective:

• to be no match for (e.g. outclassed in authority, strength or in debt to); to be unable to act on an equal basis with - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be astonished to hear; to be incredulous about; to express disbelief
• who do you think you're kidding by saying (that); what a laugh! - as 〜が聞いてあきれる, used to indicate incredulous dismissal of some claim

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• hair at the temples; hair at the sides of the head

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to have someone send (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (via someone else); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use as an excuse; to make a pretext of - archaism