noun:

• pavilion housing the empress's reception hall (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow

noun:

• legal guardians' association; parents' association (at a school)
• parent-teacher's meeting

noun:

• discarding a tile that becomes another player's winning tile - Mahjong term ➜ 振り込み

noun:

• spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii); Bahamonde's beaked whale

interjection:

• come on; hurry up; chop chop - archaism ➜ 其れ其れ【それそれ】
• yeah; that's right; exactly - archaism ➜ 其れ其れ【それそれ】

noun:

• backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body

noun:

• cashier's desk; counter (where you pay in a store); cash desk

noun:

• footwear carrier; servant who carried his master's footwear ➜ 沓取
• professional jester ➜ たいこもち

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to read (somebody's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking - usu. ～の... - idiom

noun:

• student's handbook; small notebook that also acts as a student ID

pronoun:

• which way; which direction; where - どちら is polite ➜ 此方【こちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• which one (esp. of two alternatives)
• who ➜ どちら様

noun:

• reason; significance; cause
• piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ... ［由］

noun:

• word for word; one word - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to recall; to hit upon...; to occur to (one)
• to feel the call of ...

adverb:

• extremely cold feeling that makes one feel numb; sharp pain that is almost numbing - onomatopoeia
• heartrending; touching the heart

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for one who goes second; Being slow to take action inevitably leads to defeat - four character idiom

noun:

• electoral system allowing for the election of multiple candidates from one district; multi-member constituent electoral system ➜ 小選挙区制

expression / adjectival noun:

• to be as busy as a bee; like Christmas and a birthday feast rolled into one - idiom

noun:

• "multilayer" train; single train formed by joining one or more trains having a different origin or destination

noun:

• Japanese confectionery store (orig. one of high standing, supplying the imperial court, etc.); Japanese confectionery maker

noun:

• school swimsuit; regulation blue one-piece swimsuit worn by pupils in school-based swimming events

noun:

• tufted toothpick; Edo-period toothbrush resembling a large toothpick burred at one end into a tuft

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to lean to one side; to oppose; to look aside; to regret

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to devote oneself; to do one thing exclusively; to make a job of
• to decide to - usually written using kana alone ➜ 事にする