pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - derogatory or familiar

noun:

• samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami)
• type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

noun:

• yellowtail surgeonfish (Prionurus punctatus, species of Eastern Central Pacific tang found in reefs from the Gulf of California to El Salvador)

noun:

• Tenpyō-kanpō era (749.4.14-749.7.2); Tenbyō-kanpō era

particle:

• et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
• or something - after an approximate quote or vague suggestion
• the likes of - lessening the significance or value of the previous word

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor ➜ サルバトールモニター

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• restoring the declining fortunes; recovering from the discouraging situation; reversing the downward trend - four character idiom

noun:

• ordinary verse of a renga (i.e. not the first three verses or the last verse)

adverb:

• anywhere; for all time; to the ends of the earth
• through thick and thin; come hell or high water; to the bitter end; to the utmost
• persistently; stubbornly
• in all respects; on every point
• thoroughly; exhaustively

noun:

• night express with sleeper cars (from the original color of the trains) (colour)

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor

noun:

• offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
• twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• pushing (propelling) (one's opponent) out of the ring from behind - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• looking down (from the heavens); visit of a high-ranking person

noun / ~の noun:

• vegetarian cuisine originally derived from the dietary restrictions of Buddhist monks

noun:

• Eviota ocellifer (species of pygmy goby from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan)

noun:

• Myxine paucidens (species of hagfish from the Sagaminada Sea in Japan)

noun:

• spookfish (Hydrolagus mitsukurii, species of cartilaginous fish from the Northwest Pacific)

noun:

• reticulated swellshark (Cephaloscyllium fasciatum, species of catshark from the Western Pacific)

adjective:

• warm (esp. from the fever of a sick person); hot; stuffy

noun:

• outer edge of the foot (from little toe to heel) (karate) - Martial Arts term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to manage; to control; to maneuver; to steer
• to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument)
• to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
• to manipulate (a person, public opinion, etc.); to pull the strings; to control from the shadows; to mastermind

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu"; "ga" column or row of the kana syllabary