noun:

• fallen scraps; scatterings
• leftovers; remainder; pickings; odds and ends

noun / ~の noun:

• student who cannot keep up in school; dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.) - colloquialism - sensitive

noun:

• shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; people who withdraw from society
• social withdrawal; shunning other people

noun:

• long female underwear (from bloomers)
• shorts with elasticized cuffs (were used by women as sportswear) (elasticised); gym shorts - not ブルマーズ ➜ 体操服

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• famous sword; sword blade by Masamune
• sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844) - colloquialism

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• one-night stand; taking home a woman from a bar, club, etc. - slang
• takeout (i.e. food); take-out; takeaway; take-away - polite language ➜ 持ち帰り【もちかえり】

noun:

• dry lacquer technique; kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer

expression:

• one cannot escape from one's worldly desires; the hounds of earthly desires would return each time they are driven away [literal] - proverb

noun:

• lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

adverb / pronoun:

• here and there; all around; everywhere; throughout; all over

~する noun:

• to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up ［あちこち・あちらこちら・あっちこっち・アチコチ］

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to offer (a suggestion, etc.); to propose (an idea, etc.); to approach with (a proposal, etc.)

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on ➜ 主眼

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be completely disgusted with; to be absolutely fed up with; to run out of patience with ➜ 愛想が尽きる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be struck by lightning
• to be yelled at (by someone of higher status); to be scolded harshly - idiom

godan ~す verb:

• to use within an inch of its life; to use every little bit of; to get the most out of

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to blow a conch; to blow a trumpet shell; to blow the war horn ➜ ほら貝【ほらがい】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cause a stir; to create a stir; to make a stir; to cause repercussions

noun:

• carved seal; engraved stamp

~する noun:

• to engrave (a seal); to carve
• to make an impression (with a seal)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take someone's place; to step into someone's shoes; to succeed someone in his post ➜ 後釜

godan ~る verb:

• to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

expression / adjective:

• not to be able to keep one's health; exceeding the limits of one's body; not to be able to maintain one's fortune