noun:

• crow dipper (Pinellia tuber) ➜ カラスビシャク
• 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day - abbreviation ➜ 半夏生

noun:

• Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
• to unsew; to unstitch
• to solve; to work out; to answer
• to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
• to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
• to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
• to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair) ➜ 梳く【すく】

noun:

• end (e.g. of street); tip; point; edge; margin
• beginning; start; first
• odds and ends; scrap; odd bit; least

noun:

• gyaru; (young) woman adhering to a fashion trend usually marked by brown or blond-dyed hair, gaudy clothes and accessories - From English "gal"
• gal

noun:

• self-styled humanitarian; chivalrous person; persons acting under the pretence of chivalry who formed gangs and engaged in gambling ➜ 渡世人・男伊達・町奴

noun:

• light Kyoto-style home cooking with boiled vegetables and marinated food, also now served in restaurants ➜ 惣菜【そうざい】

noun:

• official names associated with coaching licenses (105 permanent and heritable, plus those issued to select yokozuna for a single generation) - Sumo term ➜ 年寄

noun:

• cervicobrachial syndrome; indicates pain, swelling, weakness and/or numbness in the neck/shoulder region, used when specific diagnosis is not known

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

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】

expression / noun:

• showing special confidence and courtesy (to someone, often to convince them to take a post, etc.)

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

noun:

• debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods) - archaism

noun:

• oxygen absorber; oxygen scavenger; small packet placed in packaged food to absorb oxygen and prevent oxidation

noun:

• minigame; mini game; subgame; microgame; short and simple video game
• practice game, usu. with reduced players - Sports term

suffix noun:

• from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
• aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above

noun:

• first volume (e.g. book) ➜ 下【げ】・上巻

noun / prefix:

• superior quality; best; top; high class
• going up
• governmental; imperial
• presenting; showing

prefix:

• ana- (medical, biol.)

noun:

• iron (Fe)

~の noun / noun:

• strong and hard (as iron)

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• railway - abbreviation ➜ 鉄道

noun / prefix noun:

• railway enthusiast - colloquialism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself

noun:

• Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946); Workers' and Peasants' Red Army

noun:

• strength and weakness; (degree of) strength
• stress (of a sound); loudness

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• having presence of mind; self-possessed; imperturbable; calm and self-possessed - four character idiom

noun:

• having a samurai's spirit and a merchant's business sense - four character idiom

noun:

• one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family - four character idiom

noun:

• the orientation of time and place; awareness of the existing situation - four character idiom