ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be dispirited; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to lose heart ➜ 悄気る

ichidan verb:

• to speak jokingly; to speak teasingly; to joke around; to speak nonsense - colloquialism ➜ チャラチャラ

noun:

• language spoken by the Emishi ➜ 蝦夷【えぞ】
• languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) ➜ 南蛮【なんばん】
• foreign language

noun:

• small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival) ➜ 宵宮

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path

noun:

• the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• world of tathata; "the pure and absolute truth of the tathata is as wide as the sea" [figurative] - Buddhism term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be torn off; to come off
• to be torn to pieces; to be torn to shreds

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• not less than; ... and more; ... and upwards ➜ 余
• beyond ... (e.g. one's means); further (e.g. nothing further to say); more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that)
• above-mentioned; foregoing
• since ...; seeing that ...
• this is all; that is the end; the end

noun / ~の noun:

• far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead - from 断然 + トップ - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

expression:

• half a loaf is better than none; even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• parallelism; running parallel (to, with)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with ➜ 並行

noun / ~する noun:

• the flight formation of geese; lining up shoulder to shoulder like flying geese; leading out

noun:

• express home delivery (by the Kuroneko Yamato company); door-to-door parcel delivery; courier service ➜ 宅配便

noun:

• cap worn by masked dancer (cap covers hair and nape and reaches to the shoulders)

noun / ~の noun:

• bottom-up approach to management; on-the-spot decision-making; hands-on approach (policy, etc.)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / suffix:

• being fond of; having a liking for
• to the liking of; favored by; popular with

noun / ~の noun:

• first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)

noun / ~する noun:

• books returned unsold; books returned to the library

noun:

• related (relevant) matters; matters relevant to the subject

noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term
• The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern) ［さんぞん］ ➜ 三尊天井
• the three people one must esteem: master, father, teacher

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)