noun / ~する noun:

• softening Antonym: 硬化
• softening (of attitude); mollification Antonym: 硬化
• weakening (of the market) Antonym: 硬化
• blanching (e.g. of vegetables; by depriving of light)

noun:

• angel's raiment; robe of feathers
• wings of birds or insects; plumage of birds
• type of bug ［はごろも］

noun:

• Song of Solomon (book of the Bible); Song of Songs; Canticle of Canticles

noun:

• legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State - honorific language

noun:

• big three dragons; winning hand consisting of pungs or kongs of each of the three types of dragon tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

noun:

• capital; metropolis; seat of government
• capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light)
• location of the Imperial Palace

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to leap out (e.g. onto the stage); to spring out
• to jump (e.g. into first place); to shoot (e.g. to the top); to come to the forefront; to suddenly become prominent

noun:

• advertising the excellence of one's wares; boasting; self-advertisement
• statement of the virtues of a medicine; description of the virtues of a drug ➜ 効能書き【こうのうがき】

noun / ~する noun:

• making one's debut; making one's first appearance - esp. 顔見せ
• (just) showing one's face; showing up - esp. 顔見せ ➜ 顔を見せる
• introductory kabuki performance (to introduce the actors) - esp. 顔見世
• December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform - esp. 顔見世 ➜ 顔見世狂言

expression / adjective:

• taking no notice (of); thinking nothing of; disregarding; not aware of; completely ignoring; being out of consideration; effectively not existing as an option

noun:

• inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦
• death pains; agony of death

noun:

• method of patterning traditional Japanese clothing (the tops of all of patterns being pointed at the highest part of the shoulder)

noun:

• universe - Buddhism term
• realm of thought - Buddhism term
• underlying principle of reality; manifestation of true thusness - Buddhism term
• being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other ［ほうかい］ - abbreviation ➜ 法界悋気

noun:

• top and bottom; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends; up and down

noun / ~する noun:

• going up and down; rising and falling; fluctuating
• going and coming back

noun:

• upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled; the government and the people
• first and second volumes

adverbial noun:

• in the first place; to begin with; from the start; originally; ab initio

conjunction:

• after all; anyway; actually; well, ...; ... on earth (e.g. "what on earth?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") - used when bringing up something already mentioned

noun / ~の noun:

• beginning; start

noun:

• number of words a person speaks ➜ 口数が多い
• number of dependents; number of mouths to feed
• number of shares, items, applications, etc.

noun:

• grade of wood; quality of wood
• cut end (of a piece of wood)

noun:

• range of use; range of application; range of applications; scope (of a document) - IT term

noun:

• (a) jump
• splashes (usu. of mud)
• upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo) - often 撥ね
• close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup

noun / ~する noun:

• blink (of eyes); wink
• twinkling (of stars); flicker (of light); blink (of light) ［またたき・まだたき］

noun:

• blessings of heaven; favour of emperor; favor of emperor; divination's luckiest day; blessings of nature

noun:

• pile; heap; layers (e.g. of clothing); set (e.g. of boxes); course (e.g. of stones) - esp. 重ね

counter:

• counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.) - esp. 重ね; used after a word from the "hito-futa-mi" counting system

noun:

• layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat - esp. 襲
• combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours) - esp. 襲 - abbreviation ➜ かさねの色目【かさねのいろめ】

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• gentle clinking; sound of rapping; sound of rattling; sound of lightly chopping - onomatopoeia
• simmering noise; light bubbling; sound of cooking something on a low flame - onomatopoeia