noun:

• kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat - polite language - female language ➜ 炬燵【こたつ】

noun:

• registration of transfer of shares; entry of a change of holders in the register of shareholders

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to tire of; to lose interest in - archaism ➜ 飽きる
• to be satisfied; to enjoy
• to do adequately - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention
• two smiths hammering at an object in turn ➜ 向こう鎚

noun:

• townspeople; townsfolk; commoner; civilian; merchant; tradesman; tradeswoman; tradespeople; artisan; members of the lowest Edo-period social class (comprising commoners not involved in farming)

noun:

• black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people

noun:

• jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)

noun:

• laying out (e.g. ground plan, garden); layout
• taking space (Go); obtaining land; gaining territory
• training done in one's own stable - Sumo term
• (police) legwork - abbreviation ➜ 地取り捜査

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

noun:

• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid- character height; interpoint (interword separation) ➜ 中黒・中点

noun:

• kiss and cry; area in an ice rink where figure skaters wait for their marks to be announced - Sports term

ichidan verb / auxiliary verb / intransitive verb:

• to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough

noun / ~の noun:

• duty; sense of duty; honor; honour; decency; courtesy; debt of gratitude; social obligation

~の noun:

• in-law; relation by marriage

noun:

• crotch; crutch; groin; thigh
• fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)

noun / ~の noun:

• head; chief

noun:

• chairman; governor; president ［主席］
• top student; head of the class ［首席］
• top seat; first desk (in orchestra)

noun:

• Golden Week (early-May holiday season in Japan)

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry of local warlords; a number of powerful (talented, influential) persons standing by themselves in a given field - four character idiom

noun:

• lower tier; lower step; lower column; lower berth; bottom shelf
• low position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)

noun:

• countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel

noun:

• temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs) - Shintō term

noun / ~する noun:

• parting in tears; tearful parting; coming to grief; having to take a different tack; going separate ways

noun:

• demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good - Buddhism term ➜ 四魔

suffix noun:

• suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)

noun:

• scheme in which a man and woman trick another man into a compromising situation for blackmail; badger game

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be indelibly stained or ingrained; to be dyed in deeply