noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

expression:

• when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be benumbed (e.g. with cold)
• to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

noun:

• day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season); dog days of summer ➜ 丑の日

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to take a lesson from (a wise person); to follow in the footsteps of - idiom

noun:

• lined hogfish (Bodianus leucosticticus); Bodianus rubrisos (declared separate species from B. leucosticticus in 2006)

noun:

• Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, species of requiem shark found in the northwestern Atlantic)

noun:

• question time (e.g. in parliament, diet, etc.); question period; time allowed for questions

noun:

• Śakra (Deva); Shakra; Indra; Shakra Devanam Indra; the king of heaven in Hindu mythology - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 帝釈天

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

suffix:

• indicates storeys, structures, or materials used in a building
• indicates denomination (after a currency)

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

noun:

• side seating (to stage right in noh)
• centerstage right (noh)

noun / ~する noun:

• lengthening a vowel (e.g. as in Kansai dialect) - Linguistics term ➜ 短呼

noun:

• long sound (esp. long vowel) - Linguistics term

noun:

• negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term

noun:

• memorial services for the founder of the sect (esp. for Shinran in Shin Buddhism) - Buddhism term

noun:

• marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family; virilocal marriage

noun:

• chanting sutras in front of a shoryodana (of a monk during the Bon Festival) ➜ 精霊棚【しょうりょうだな】

noun:

• shielding gas (in welding)

expression / noun:

• humiliation of defeat in battle; past humiliation by others; shame of an unendurable disgrace - proverb ➜ 会稽の恥を雪ぐ【かいけいのはじをすすぐ】

noun:

• writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips) - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• koma shape; five-sided shape in the form of a koma (shogi game piece) ➜ 駒【こま】

noun / ~する noun:

• sorting; arrangement; organization; putting in order; adjustment; regulation
• liquidation; settlement; consolidation; clearance (e.g. debt); paying off
• retrenchment; curtailment; cutting down; disposal

noun:

• Buddhist priest; bonze
• close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head
• boy; sonny; lad - familiar language - derogatory term
• not catching anything (in fishing) ➜ お凸【おでこ】