noun / ~する noun:

• execution; carrying out; performance; enforcement; exercise; service ［しっこう・しゅぎょう］

noun:

• lead monk performing various tasks in a temple - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning

noun:

• scale (of fish, snake, etc.)
• serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))

noun / suffix noun:

• training; education; upbringing

noun:

• stocking up; laying in
• preparation (e.g. ingredients)
• girl studying to become a geisha

adjectival noun / noun:

• thoughtless; indiscreet; lacking in common sense; rashness; betraying one's lack of judgment (judgement); absurd; undignified; compromising; disgraceful

adverb:

• in general; generally; mostly; roughly; largely; mainly; on the whole; by and large

noun:

• gist; point; main idea

expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

noun:

• double-dealer; fence-sitter; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict; duplicity; turncoat - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• secluding oneself in the mountains; undertaking ascetic practices at a mountain temple
• retreat; off-site meeting

noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• apostille; stamp or certificate of public document authentication in accordance with Hague Convention XII

noun:

• leatherman; conspicuously gay male who belongs to the leather subculture and engages in bodybuilding - From English "hard gay"

noun:

• postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September - From English "heart mail"

noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) - colloquialism ➜ 穂咲の総藻
• aquatic plants such as hornwort that are commonly used in goldfish tanks, etc.

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 八色の姓

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

noun:

• traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• Randall's pygmy goby (Trimma randalli, species in Palau and the Philippines)

noun:

• spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, a shortnose chimaera found in the Eastern Pacific)