noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang

noun:

• Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand

noun:

• Aum Shinrikyo; Japanese religious group responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

noun / ~する noun:

• letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿

ichidan verb:

• to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together

adverb:

• exactly; surely; certainly; just - esp. 正に when in kanji
• right then; just then; at that moment
• just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening) - esp. 将に when in kanji
• duly; naturally - esp. 当に when in kanji

noun:

• white-freckled surgeonfish (Acanthurus maculiceps, species of tang from the Indo-West Pacific); spot-face surgeon; pale-lined surgeonfish; yellow-freckled surgeon fish

noun:

• longfin batfish (Platax teira, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish); Tiera batfish ［つばめうお・ツバメウオ］
• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) - obscure term ➜ 飛び魚

noun:

• panel; scene-panel
• painted backdrop (panel at the back of a noh stage), on which a pine tree is painted - symbolically a reflection of tree at the front of the stage

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to panic (from the flu panics of late 2000's and early 2010's); to act frantically; to act bizarrely - slang ➜ タミフル

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

noun:

• physician in private practice
• town doctor; doctor who served the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.) - archaism

adverb:

• after all; in the end; when all's said and done
• for the time being; at present

noun:

• someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel

expression:

• "the shoemaker's children go barefoot" [figurative]; the dyer wears white [literal]; specialists often fail to apply their skills to themselves

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras - Buddhism term

noun:

• carrying over a bill from one Diet session to the next, being deliberated by a committee in the interim

expression:

• any event can bring about an effect in an unexpected way; if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper [literal] - proverb

noun:

• selecting an auspicious date by looking at the astrological information on the calendar; date selected in such a manner

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】

noun:

• removal of blanket government protection of bank deposits; introduction of limits on deposit insurance

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to capture all the popularity; to steal the show; to upstage