noun:

• (waka) poetic sentiment; waka-composing mood; solid grounding in waka; meaning of a waka poem

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang (a curtain); to droop (a tail); to lower (a blind)

adjectival noun / noun / ~する noun:

• bitter experience; learning from a bad experience; having had enough (of something unpleasant); having had a bellyful; being sick and tired (of something); being fed up

expression:

• It is justifiable to kill one (harmful) person to save the lives of many - four character idiom

noun:

• 23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)
• moon-waiting party held on 23rd night of a lunar month

godan ~る verb:

• to do one good; to be beneficial; to be good for the body; to be helpful
• to stand in someone else's shoes ［身になる］
• to care deeply for someone ［身になる］ - archaism

noun:

• elder statesman; doyen; old-timer; authority
• Genro (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)

noun:

• passion; sexual desire; lust
• attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ornament
• dead body used to test a blade
• unlicensed prostitute who always works out of the same cathouse

noun:

• Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama) ➜ 稲魂
• Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
• fox (said to be messengers of Inari) ➜ 狐
• fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes) ➜ 油揚げ
• inarizushi - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ いなり寿司

noun:

• caramel (soft candy) ［キャラメル］
• caramel (browned sugar used as flavouring) - usu. カラメル

noun:

• oak flour (esp. as animal food); acorn flour

noun:

• sweet Lolita (fashion style) (as opposed to Gothic Lolita) ➜ ゴスロリ

noun:

• nuisance mail (such as chain mail, etc.) ➜ いたずら

noun:

• regular coffee (as opposed to instant coffee)

noun:

• slow food (as opposed to fast food)

noun:

• exchange or research student (as opposed to regular undergraduate or graduate) ➜ 正規生【せいきせい】

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to be matched against
• to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on

noun:

• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure ➜ 島田【しまだ】

noun:

• mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)

noun / ~する noun:

• giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty); reducing the number of mouths [literal]

expression:

• in terms of; from the point of view of

expression:

• the end justifies the means; circumstances may justify a lie - proverb

noun:

• smith's assistant; assistant who hammers in response to a master smith's signal
• large hammer (used by a smith's assistant)

noun:

• a member of one's "in group" (e.g. one's family, employees, etc.)