ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to laugh (suddenly); to begin to laugh; to be made to laugh - Kansai dialect

noun:

• sappanwood (Caesalpinia sappan)
• sappanwood dye (red in colour) (color)
• layered colour (light brown on the front, dark red beneath)

expression:

• first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month; traditional day for worship at "fox deity" shrines

noun:

• nuclear power village; tight-knit community of legislators, regulators and manufacturers involved in the promotion of nuclear power - derogatory term

expression / ~する noun:

• to display one's real ability; to show one's real ability; to show one's stuff; to show oneself at one's best; to really shine; to come into one's own; to find one's feet (legs); to hit (strike) one's stride

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to wither (of a plant); to be blasted; to die
• to mature (of one's personality, abilities, etc.)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to rinse; to wash out - esp. 濯ぐ ➜ 漱ぐ【すすぐ】
• to have one's revenge; to wipe out a disgrace ［すすぐ・そそぐ］ - esp. 雪ぐ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.)
• to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come of age; to become an adult; to become fully qualified; to stand on one's own

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get up (from sitting) ➜ 腰を下ろす
• to finally start to do something; to get off one's arse (ass)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make lively; to become animated; to have fun talking about something ➜ 話に花を咲かせる
• to become successful and well known

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to feel pain ➜ 痛い目・目にあう【めにあう】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be good (at); to go well - from 行ける
• to look (taste, etc.) good
• to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

noun:

• leg trip (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Sumo, Martial Arts term
• foothold; pedal

adverbial noun:

• nearly (used to estimate a period of time by rounding up incomplete units) ➜ 丸【まる】

noun:

• tying a person's limbs to two or four bulls and making them run in different directions (Warring States-era death penalty)

noun:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - formal salutation for a brief letter

noun:

• student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ➜ 浪人

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)