expression / godan ~う verb:

• to tell a person (something) emphatically; to let a person have it

noun:

• seasonal flowers arranged for a tea ceremony; flowers in a tea room

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a move; to move a piece (e.g. in shogi)

noun:

• a cold in the throat; common cold with a sore throat

noun:

• congratulations on entering a school; gift to someone entering a school

noun:

• host in a bar for male homosexuals; effeminate man who talks and dresses like a woman; young male homosexual - From English "gay boy"

noun:

• ballast; heavy material placed low to improve a vessel's stability
• ballast; crushed stone, gravel, etc. used on a roadbed or railway track

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

expression:

• Finger cut-off, ten thousand fist-punches, whoever lies has to swallow a thousand needles [literal]; words said when making a pinky swear - idiom ➜ 指切り【ゆびきり】

noun / ~する noun:

• final coat (of paint, plaster, varnish, etc.); finish; glazing
• adding more of the same (of something negative, e.g. shame) ➜ 恥の上塗り【はじのうわぬり】

noun:

• mess; sorry state; plight; sad sight - derogatory term

suffix:

• -ways; -wards - indicates direction
• in the act of ...; just as one is ... - after the -masu stem of a verb
• manner of ...; way of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 様【さま】

noun:

• gait; manner of walking; footwork (e.g. in sport)
• characteristic way of moving, keeping the center of gravity low (centre) - Sumo term

noun:

• Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age) ➜ 五奉行

noun:

• Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider) ［土蜘蛛］ ➜ 地蜘蛛
• tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)

noun / ~する noun:

• reservation; appointment; booking; advance order
• contract; subscription; pledge
• programming (e.g. a device); setting (e.g. a timer)

noun:

• manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) ➜ 御用人
• useful person

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise ➜ 釜を掘る
• to crash a car into the back of another (usu. used in the passive voice); to rear-end

noun:

• lei (garland of flowers) - From Hawaiian
• lei (plural of leu; currency of Rumania and Moldova) - From or ➜ レウ

noun:

• unit of weight ~600g - archaism
• pound (unit of mass: 453.6g) - archaism

noun / counter:

• loaf (of bread)

adjectival noun / noun:

• lack of refinement; inelegance; want of artistic taste; lack of poetic sense ➜ 没風流

noun:

• Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)

noun:

• awareness of the minds of others (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term