noun:

• way of wearing; way one wears a garment

noun / ~の noun:

• oldest member of a group; longest-serving member

noun / ~の noun:

• artisan's temperament; character of a complete artisan ➜ 職人気質【しょくにんかたぎ】

noun:

• front lens element (of a camera lens assembly) - slang

noun:

• gravitational sphere (of a celestial body); gravitational field - Astronomy term ➜ 引力圏

noun:

• personal security; personal protection; provision of a bodyguard

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• rocking from side to side (of a boat)

noun:

• the other side of a river
• the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live - sensitive

noun / ~する noun:

• filling in gaps; filling in blanks (in a form, etc.); stopgap; temporary measure
• covering up a deficit; making up for something (e.g. one's mistake)

noun:

• Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama) ➜ 稲魂
• Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
• fox (said to be messengers of Inari) ➜ 狐
• fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes) ➜ 油揚げ
• inarizushi - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ いなり寿司

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat a mistake (of somebody); to make the same mistake as that of ...; to follow the rut (left by someone else) [literal] ➜ 前車の轍を踏む・前轍を踏む

expression / adjective:

• (something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened - after the past tense form of a verb
• never happens; there is never a time when

noun:

• clan; partisans; conspirators; gang; ring; crew

noun / ~する noun:

• participation (e.g. in a plot)

noun:

• one flavour; one charm
• one ingredient (in traditional Chinese medicine)
• universality (of the teachings of Buddha) - Buddhism term

suffix:

• separation from; loss of interest in; independence of; distancing (of oneself) from; disillusionment with; alienation from (something) ［ばなれ］

prefix:

• detached (dwelling, room) ［はなれ］ ➜ 離れ座敷

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• unrelated; irrelevant; indifferent Antonym: 有縁

~の noun / noun:

• without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives
• unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha - Buddhism term Antonym: 有縁

noun:

• making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job - From English "point make"

noun:

• thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap
• re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable) - orig. meaning

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rub in; to smear on; to spread on; to daub
• to lay the blame on ➜ 擦り付ける【なすりつける】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to chirp (of a swarm of insects); to sing
• to gather; to swarm

noun:

• base (logarithmic, exponential, number system); radix - Mathematics term
• base (triangle, cone, cylinder, etc.) - Geometry term
• type; kind; extent; degree

noun:

• four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room
• small room esp. for assignations

expression:

• in spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wield a baton; to swing a baton
• to lead; to direct; to command - colloquialism ➜ 采配を振る

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• scholarship; study; learning

noun:

• discipline; branch of learning; (a) science