godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)

noun / ~する noun:

• complimentary copy of a book

noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

noun:

• variety of long, columnar daikon; Nerima daikon

noun:

• center of excellence; COE

noun:

• hall of offerings (at a shrine)

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to apologize for a long neglect of friends (apologise)

noun:

• end of the year or season; year end

noun:

• Inspectorate General of Military Training (1898-1945)

noun:

• set of solutions; open set

expression / noun:

• last ray of hope

noun:

• cylindrical seat made of straw covered in fabric - archaism

noun:

• mountain (pile) of difficult problems - four character idiom

noun:

• confiscation of possessions

noun:

• stream of water cascading onto one's back (in an onsen); pelting water; waterfall shower

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門

noun:

• non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin

noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

expression / adjective:

• of good omen; augur well (for); boding well for; good fortune ➜ 縁起がいい【えんぎがいい】

noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

expression / ichidan verb:

• to know much of the world

noun:

• width of character - IT term

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

noun:

• sense of relief; feeling of relief

noun:

• chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment