noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan

noun:

• Shughni (language spoken in Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)

noun:

• break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.).

noun:

• clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow
• winds and clouds - esp. かぜくも ➜ 風雲【ふううん】

noun:

• pot dish with white flesh fish and shottsuru sauce (Akita regional dish) ➜ 塩汁【しょっつる】

noun:

• rasbora (small minnow-like fish of genera Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora, and Trigonostigma)

noun:

• flag used at funerals showing the name and rank of the deceased

noun:

• one-yen taxi (in the Taisho and Showa periods); taxi - abbr. of 一円タクシー

expression / noun:

• different suitabilities; being cut out for certain things (and not for others)

expression:

• the world is at peace; bows in bags and swords in sheaths [literal] - proverb

noun:

• shirt with white cuffs and collar; cleric shirt

expression / noun:

• people who partied flamboyantly in Harajuku, etc. in the 70s and 80s

noun:

• mobile website; website oriented to smartphones and tablets - IT term

noun:

• chuno sauce; semi-sweet sauce made from fruit and vegetables

noun:

• three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different - sometimes derogatory ➜ 変わる【かわる】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to include (in a group or scope)
• to instruct; to make one understand
• to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication)
• to put in (someone's) mouth
• to permeate with flavor

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be attached; to be connected with; to adhere; to stick; to cling
• to remain imprinted; to scar; to stain; to dye
• to bear (fruit, interest, etc.)
• to be acquired (of a habit, ability, etc.); to increase (of strength, etc.)
• to take root
• to accompany; to attend; to follow; to study with
• to side with; to belong to
• to possess; to haunt ➜ 憑く
• to be lit; to be lighted ➜ 点く
• to be settled; to be resolved; to be decided
• to be given (of a name, price, etc.)
• to be sensed; to be perceived
• to be lucky - from 運がつく

suffix / godan ~く verb:

• to become (a state, condition, etc.) - after -masu stems, onomatopoeic and mimetic words ➜ 付く【づく】

noun:

• staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging - Buddhism term
• providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time - Buddhism term

noun:

• system
• lineage; ancestry; family line
• group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); party; school (of thought)
• close (evolutionary) relationship
• a population sharing a common ancestor (in genetics); strain (e.g. bacterial)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to write (a person) up (in a positive or negative light); to write something up so that it stands out; to write up in an exaggerated fashion; to detail; to list

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to rub on; to rub against; to wipe on; to nuzzle against (e.g. dog nosing a person)
• to lay the blame on ［なすりつける］
• to strike (a match) ［すりつける・こすりつける］

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs
• to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject); to raise (an issue); to mention