noun:

• type of fast military boat used from the Warring states period until the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths

noun:

• retired husband syndrome; stress syndrome resulting from one's husband being at home

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

noun:

• taxi equipped with a meter (from "meter taxi") - obscure term

expression:

• the greatest hate proceeds from the greatest love - proverb

noun:

• wisdom obtained from meditation - Buddhism term
• wisdom and meditation - Buddhism term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to be on everyone's lips; to be well-known; to be famous

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be of benefit; to be useful; to be good for you

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be covered in grass; to be grassy; to be verdant

godan ~る verb:

• to act tough; to act bad; to act worse than one really is

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled - idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to tear off; to rip off; to peel off

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to cause a commotion; to create a big stir; to invoke a storm [literal]

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to think deep down (that); to tell oneself (that); to secretly believe (that)

noun:

• rising intonation; upward inflection
• rising (sales, tendency, etc.); getting better; improvement
• feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar ➜ 逆上がり

noun / ~の noun:

• those (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener, or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 彼【あれ】
• they (of people) - used to refer to one's equals or inferiors - archaism

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun:

• full flush; winning hand containing only tiles of one suit - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• homogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from one source)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block the way
• to stand in the way (e.g. of progress); to obstruct

noun:

• barker; tout; hawker; someone who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events, shops, bars, and such, by exhorting passing public

~する noun:

• calling out to potential customers