noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

noun / ~する noun:

• tidying up; clearing up; cleaning up; clearing away; putting in order

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to take advantage of; to impose on
• to make an entry (in an account book)

noun / ~する noun:

• hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• (just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it; to dig your own grave - idiom

noun:

• respectful term for another's spirit
• God's heart or spirit (in Christianity); Lord's will

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to gain a reliable foundation and be in a safe condition; to board a large ship [literal]

expression:

• variation of "arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period

expression / noun:

• one's devoted wife; wife who has followed one through hard times; wife married in poverty

noun:

• disaster countermeasures office (temporary structure in case of emergency); headquarters for disaster control; disaster response headquarters

noun / ~の noun:

• canned food; tinned food

noun:

• confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work) - usu. 缶詰にする
• being stuck in a confined space - usu. 缶詰になる

noun:

• crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray
• difference of opinion; misunderstanding; estrangement; disagreement

noun:

• bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)
• dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn) ➜ 襲の色目

noun / ~する noun:

• monk's "begging"; religious mendicancy; asking for alms
• going with one's bowl to the meditation hall at mealtime (in a Zen temple) - Buddhism term

noun:

• impudent talk; speaking without thinking; continuing talking even after one has lost an argument; (getting in) the last word; talking back; needless retort

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - derogatory or familiar

noun:

• samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami)
• type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

noun:

• thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters) ➜ 篠竹【しのだけ】
• Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes) ［しの］ - abbreviation ➜ 篠笛
• sliver (strand of loose fibers) ［しの］

noun:

• behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; 2nd year of junior high sickness [literal] - slang - humorous term

noun:

• hitting; striking ➜ 打っ込む
• throwing; tossing ➜ 打っ込む
• mixing ➜ 打っ込む
• wearing ➜ 打っ込む
• bottom fishing; legering ➜ ぶっこみづり
• gap between pegs in a pachinko machine (that a ball can pass through)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• (for a nobleman) to bestow one of the kanji in his name upon someone (e.g. meritorious retainer, boy coming of age, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
• complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• yellowtail surgeonfish (Prionurus punctatus, species of Eastern Central Pacific tang found in reefs from the Gulf of California to El Salvador)

noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce