noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle (a matter) for the time being; to complete the first stage (of something)

noun:

• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings) ➜ 暦注

noun:

• tachibana tree west of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿・左近の桜

noun:

• cherry tree east of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 右近の橘・紫宸殿

noun:

• lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners
• small shrine

expression:

• unable to find adequate words (e.g. to express feelings); being at a loss for words

godan ~す verb:

• to knock down the price of
• to make a successful bid (for an article); to buy at auction

noun:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era

noun / ~する noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 結婚活動

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to open (e.g. doors) - esp. 開く
• to open (e.g. business, etc.) - esp. 開く
• to be empty - esp. 空く
• to be vacant; to be available; to be free - esp. 空く
• to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to come to an end - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a hole; to form a gap; to have an interval (between events) ➜ 穴が開く

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to desire
• to wish for; to expect
• to see; to command (a view of)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for
• to indulge in; to devour greedily

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• spring; springtime
• New Year
• prime (of one's life, etc.)
• adolescence; puberty
• sexuality

noun:

• native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】

noun / suffix:

• precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】

noun / ~する noun:

• sponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's auspices); promotion; organizing; organising; hosting; staging

adverb / adjectival noun:

• intently; single‐mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart ➜ 一向【ひたぶる】

noun:

• tire track
• traces of a person or thing; path one has taken
• locus - Mathematics term

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• comfortably; peacefully; with one's mind at ease; calmly; without worries
• (growing) quickly

noun:

• just cause; good reason; pretext; justification - four character idiom
• duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.) - four character idiom

adverb:

• just (now)
• quite (near)
• unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; against one's better judgement (judgment)

suffix noun / noun:

• itself

noun:

• one's own body; oneself

adverb:

• originally; naturally; by nature; from the start

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• unworthiness (of one's father, teacher, etc.)
• incompetence; foolishness
• misfortune; unluckiness

pronoun:

• I; me - humble language

noun:

• leftover food (esp. on one's plate at the end of a meal)