noun:

• sound when stopping the blade of a sword with the guard

noun:

• tower crowned by a representation of the Chinese firebird; beautiful tower - obscure term ➜ 鳳凰

noun:

• three-tiered court system; principle of a three-instance trial process

noun:

• main door at the front of a house
• front shutters

noun:

• stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus ➜ 地謡座

noun:

• stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus - obscure term ➜ 地謡前

noun:

• height of a beam; beam as measured from top to bottom

noun:

• white cloth
• empty land; empty lot
• amateur (of a prostitute, etc)

noun:

• city god; guardian deity of a city and esp. its marketplace

noun:

• cabinet announcement; cabinet notification; official government promulgation of a decision, etc.

noun:

• final hand of a game (i.e. south round, fourth hand) - Mahjong term - From English "all last"

noun:

• mate's rate; preferential rate of payment offered to a friend

noun:

• twittering of a bush warbler (esp. during winter); tiny twittering

noun:

• bowed tendon; type of tendon injury in a horse's leg

ichidan verb:

• to strip (the head of a screw, bolt, etc.); to wear out - obscure term

expression:

• on the least pretext; at the drop of a hat ➜ 何かと言うと

noun:

• local card game (usu. a local version of hanafuda or kabufuda) ➜ 花札【はなふだ】・株札【かぶふだ】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to think of something bizarre; to suddenly have a whacky idea

expression / upper nidan verb (archaic):

• to think of something bizarre; to suddenly have a whacky idea ➜ 奇想天外より来る

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to cancel a denominator; to clear an equation of fractions - Mathematics term

noun:

• beauty of form or proportion (in a created object); solid beauty

particle:

• (after imperative form of a verb) as if to say; as though

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain
• to result in; to prove to be
• to consist of; to be composed of
• to succeed; to be complete
• to change into; to be exchanged for
• to play a role ➜ 成り済ます
• to be promoted - Shōgi term

godan ~る verb:

• to do ... - as お+masu-stem+になる, ご+noun+になる, etc. - honorific language

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to turn back (e.g. half-way)
• to return; to go back
• to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned
• to rebound; to spring back

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cool (from room temperature); to chill; to refrigerate
• to calm down; to cool off; to regain one's composure; to relax
• to be frightened (at); to be scared (of)