noun:

• dance hall; dance floor
• landing (stairs)
• leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation; cooling-off period; lull; plateau

noun:

• the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun:

• chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and serve on rice - Food term

noun:

• Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)
• Rape of Nanking (1937); Nanking Massacre ➜ 南京大虐殺

noun:

• extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge) ➜ 枢【くるる】

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

expression / noun:

• pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace

noun:

• Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

noun:

• structure; construction; appearance
• posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance
• readiness; determination; preparedness
• kanji enclosure type radical (must enclose at least two sides of the kanji) - e.g. 門

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to offer; to present - humble language
• to set someone up in a high position; to revere at a distance

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to do respectfully - humble language

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low

noun:

• first move (in go, shogi, etc.); moving first; person with the first move
• forestalling; (seizing the) initiative ➜ 後手

adverb:

• for the present; for the time being; at present; in the meantime ➜ 差し当たり

adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to push aside; to overcome (e.g. difficulties); to reject
• to align; to put in order
• to push open - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to push aside; to overcome (e.g. difficulties); to reject - archaism ➜ 排する
• to align; to put in order
• to push open

noun:

• light distribution (e.g. in candle-power or candela); luminous intensity distribution; spatial distribution of luminous intensity

noun:

• transferring a shintai in a portable shrine, e.g. to another shrine or to a ceremony - Shintō term ➜ 神体

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie down; to stretch out
• to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait

adverb / ~と adverb:

• slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit - onomatopoeia
• slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out; seeping out - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Maru-ship; Japanese ship (because Japanese ship names often end in Maru)

noun:

• the clear top of a liquid; the clear layer in a fluid, atop the sediment