noun:

• fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)

noun:

• furikake put on rice to make it blue, which is said to act as an appetite suppressant - colloquialism ➜ ふりかけ

noun:

• battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position - Sumo term

noun:

• new breed of humans (used to refer to the younger generation, who have different ideals and sensibilities)

expression:

• talk is cheap; it's easier to say than to do; building Osaka Castle by talking [literal] - proverb

~の noun / noun:

• existing (at the present moment) ➜ 在る【ある】

adjectival noun / noun:

• alright; acceptable; passable - colloquialism

~る verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have ➜ 在る【ある】・在る【ある】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to not try to fix an error but rather make it look good on the surface only

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be so angry that one lashes out at unrelated things; to have an outburst of anger

noun:

• iteration mark used to represent repetition of the previous kanji (to be read using its kun-yomi) ➜ 踊り字

expression:

• baby-making machine (famously used by Health, Labour and Welfare Minister Yanagisawa Hakuo to refer to women)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to become accustomed to calling (e.g. someone by a certain name)

godan ~む verb:

• to carry on one's back
• to burden oneself (e.g. with debts, responsibilities, etc.)

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】

noun:

• calf (before it is fattened or used for breeding, usu. referring to 6 to 12-month-olds)

noun:

• Special Permission to Stay in Japan; residence status that can be granted to illegal immigrants or overstayers

noun:

• Special Permission to Stay in Japan; residence status that can be granted to illegal immigrants or overstayers - abbreviation ➜ 在留特別許可

adverb / ~する noun:

• (doing) various things; (doing) this and that

adverb:

• being apt to; being prone to; tending to
• at any rate; anyhow; anyway

~の noun:

• all sorts of (negative things); various

noun:

• things that do not exist; rabbit horns [literal] ［兎角］ - idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 亀毛兎角

noun:

• apomictic; of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis; related to reproduction without fertilization, meiosis or production of gametes, with the result that the seeds are genetically identical to the parent plant

expression:

• having no choice but to carry on; having no choice but to go on; unable to change one's course of action; a man riding a tiger cannot disembark halfway through

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to restore one's energy; to restore one's spirits; to recharge one's batteries

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to snap one's fingers
• to pop one's fingers; to crack one's knuckles

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to stay up all night; to sit up all night; to do something all night

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there