noun:

• entrance fee; initiation fee; registration fee; present to a teacher
• gift of dried meat from a new vassal or pupil - archaism

noun:

• advisor; adviser (to a lord, etc.); wise counselor allowed to speak to a lord without restraint

expression / ~する noun / adverb:

• scrutiny; scanning; taking a good look

expression:

• well-known only to those in the know; be well-known but to the few; highly regarded by a select few

noun / ~の noun:

• latitude; (at one's) discretion; discretionary powers; a free hand - four character idiom

noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom

noun:

• word for word; verbatim; a single word and a single phrase

noun:

• mercantile mind-set; mercenary spirit; being intent on making a profit - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw

~する noun:

• to tremble; to shiver (from stress, fear or panic); (figuratively) to experience a sense of stress, fear, or panic - onomatopoeia ➜ ガクガク・ブルブル

noun:

• brush application; brush coating; painting with a brush

godan ~く verb:

• to be bewitching; to look coquettish; to behave in an alluring manner; to behave in a seductive manner ➜ 婀娜っぽい【あだっぽい】

noun / ~する noun:

• spiritualism; spiritism; channeling; summoning a spirit and giving him voice (esp. when done by a female shaman)

noun:

• medium; channeler ➜ 巫女【みこ】

adverb / noun:

• unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain

noun:

• hypocrite; dissembler; wolf in sheep's clothing; fox in a lamb's skin

noun:

• getting one's finger caught (e.g. in a door); getting one's finger pinched; jamming one's finger in a door ➜ 指を詰める
• yakuza finger-cutting ritual

expression:

• women are not as clever as they think; women should know their place; even a clever woman will fail at selling a cow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• man's appearance; man's behaviour; someone disguised as a man

noun:

• magic mallet; lucky mallet; nursery-tale mallet that delivers one's heart's desire at a wave

noun / ~する noun:

• being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

noun:

• plunge basin; waterfall lake; plunge pool; basin under a waterfall

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to think (something) is improper; to question; to have a problem with

noun:

• clockwise rotation; CW; right-handed rotation

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term