noun:

• happy life partnership; living faithfully together till death ［かいろうどうけつ］ - four character idiom
• Venus's flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• going according to one's wishes ➜ 不如意【ふにょい】
• ceremonial sceptre used by monks when reciting sutras (scepter) - Buddhism term

noun:

• offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)

noun / ~の noun:

• establishing a large lead over one's competitors; breaking away (from the field)

noun:

• Clusiaceae; Guttiferae; family of plants including St. John's worts and mangosteens

noun / ~する noun:

• beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning - four character idiom

noun:

• corner; nook; recess
• shadow; shade
• dark circles (e.g. around one's eyes)

noun:

• women's volunteer corps; groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII

noun:

• Shudra; Sudra (member of India's worker caste)

noun:

• transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another) ➜ 式年遷宮祭

noun:

• chocolate given to a boy on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment

noun:

• King's goanna (Varanus kingorum, species of small carnivorous monitor lizard native to the Australia)

noun:

• outset; beginning; starting (things) ➜ 手始め
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun:

• fine monk's robes worn by members of the imperial household, nobility, councilors (councillors), etc.

noun:

• turning a concealed pung into an open kong by calling another player's discard - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• Let's Play; recorded playthrough of a video game (usu. with player commentary)

noun:

• growing older
• aging ceremony (on New Year's Eve or the last night of winter)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• what a hoot!; joke of the century!; one's navel boils water [literal] - idiom ➜ へそで茶を沸かす【へそでちゃをわかす】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit
• to expose
• to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to put against; to hold on; to hold against
• to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class)
• to guess (an answer)
• to make a hit (e.g. in a lottery)

lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to exit; to go out; to come out; to get out - archaism Antonym: 入る【はいる】
• to leave (on a journey); to depart; to start out; to set out - archaism
• to move forward - archaism
• to come to; to get to; to lead to; to reach - archaism
• to appear; to come out; to emerge; to surface; to come forth; to turn up; to be found; to be detected; to be discovered; to be exposed; to show; to be exhibited; to be on display - archaism
• to appear (in print); to be published; to be announced; to be issued; to be listed; to come out - archaism
• to attend; to participate; to take part; to enter (an event); to play in; to perform - archaism
• to be stated; to be expressed; to come up; to be brought up; to be raised - archaism
• to sell - archaism
• to exceed; to go over - archaism
• to stick out; to protrude - archaism
• to break out; to occur; to start; to originate - archaism
• to be produced - archaism
• to come from; to be derived from - archaism
• to be given; to get; to receive; to be offered; to be provided; to be presented; to be submitted; to be handed in; to be turned in; to be paid - archaism
• to answer (phone, door, etc.); to get - archaism
• to assume (an attitude); to act; to behave - archaism
• to pick up (speed, etc.); to gain - archaism
• to flow (e.g. tears); to run; to bleed - archaism
• to graduate - archaism

noun:

• year
• age; years
• past one's prime; old age

noun:

• mistake; error; discrepancy
• discrepancy between one's actions and intentions - Law term

noun:

• ship's captain; skipper
• length of a ship ［せんちょう］
• boatman ［ふなおさ］

noun / ~する noun:

• washing; cleansing; cleaning; laundering
• cleansing (one's mind and body) - Buddhism term

noun:

• glance; look; glimpse
• complete view; bird's-eye view