noun:

• amicus curiae; friend of the court - Law term

noun:

• structure; construction; appearance
• posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance
• readiness; determination; preparedness
• kanji enclosure type radical (must enclose at least two sides of the kanji) - e.g. 門

noun:

• 100% buckwheat noodles; buckwheat noodles made from buckwheat flour only, without the addition of wheat flour ➜ 生そば【なまそば】

noun:

• senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

noun:

• temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs) - Shintō term

adverb:

• along the road (e.g. following its curves without turning off at any intersection); along the street

expression:

• inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony (name derived the Akutagawa Ryūnosuke story "In A Grove")

expression:

• the doting parent's purse is plundered; the thief caught turns out to be one's own son [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (compulsory) retirement (e.g. on reaching the age of 65); mandatory retirement; reaching retirement age

expression:

• all those interested (in the matter); all those willing; (from) all of us; (from) everyone concerned - four character idiom

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get a salary (from); to receive a stipend (from); to be on the payroll (of)

noun:

• manners; etiquette; propriety ［さほう］
• manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making

noun:

• point of spear; spearhead ➜ 鋒先【ほさき】
• brunt; aim of attack; force of argument

noun:

• shoe; ferrule (of an umbrella); butt end (of a lance); hard tip (of mushroom)

noun:

• romaji; romanized Japanese; system of transliterating Japanese into the Latin alphabet
• Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet ➜ ラテン文字【ラテンもじ】

noun:

• right-hand match; ends-with match; backward match; matching a sub-string with the end of a field - IT term ➜ 前方一致・部分一致

noun:

• cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono
• sash (worn across chest, e.g. by election candidate or relay runners)
• wrapper band on books, CDs, etc. ➜ 帯紙・帯【おび】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be the first to speak; to break the silence - idiom
• to open something for the first time; to broach (e.g. a cask); to break a seal; to break open

expression:

• better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the Buddha you don't [literal] - proverb

expression:

• better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the god you don't [literal] - proverb ➜ 知らぬ仏より馴染みの鬼

noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang

noun:

• Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand