noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ ですます体

noun:

• billhook; fascine knife; sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe

noun:

• duo (ancient Chinese bell with a clapper and a long handle) ➜ 鈴
• large wind bell ［たく］ ➜ 風鈴

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜

noun:

• type of imperial banquet held during the Heian period and later
• being dead drunk; being very drunk - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• Kyoto's children
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext

noun:

• whelk (esp. Neptunea and Buccinum spp.) ［つぶ・ツブ］
• small spiral-shelled snail (esp. a pond snail) ➜ 螺【にし】

noun:

• rice bought and sold on a rice exchange
• rice used to produce unrefined sake
• rice paid as rent

noun:

• milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus, species of requiem shark found in the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ミルクシャーク

noun:

• divination based on laying out various items before a toddler and predicting his future based the items chosen

noun:

• parent; parents; mother and father ［親］
• dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker ［親］ ➜ 子【こ】
• founder; inventor
• (pet) owner ［親］

~の noun / noun:

• key; parent (organization); main ［親］

noun:

• ancestor; forefather

noun / ~する noun:

• squeeze (play) - Baseball term
• (in scuba diving) discomfort or pain caused by increasing water pressure compressing body air spaces and pushing body tissue inward

noun:

• used women's clothing such as bloomers and high-school sailor-suit uniforms (esp. as a source of sexual arousal) - from ブルマー and セーラー服 - slang

noun:

• special seats and standing-only space in the galley for people who only intend to see one act of a kabuki play

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

noun:

• dish of fish (meat, etc.), tofu, vegetables boiled together and served with ponzu dipping sauce; pot used to cook such a dish

noun:

• goldlined spinefoot (Siganus guttatus, species of Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific rabbitfish); orange-spotted spinefoot

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun / ~の noun:

• fine crystal; clear glass

expression:

• mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds - abbreviation ➜ 浄玻璃の鏡

noun:

• facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill; match in which a yokozuna overpowers his opponent - Sumo term

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun:

• weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持す

noun:

• shin kaya; imitation kaya; any kind of cheaper wood that resembles kaya, used for go and shogi boards ➜ 榧【かや】