noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• round plaque carrying the image of a Buddha (usually hammered from behind) used in temples and shrines

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇汁

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇鍋

noun:

• thick malt syrup poured into boiling water and sprinkled with cinnamon (used as a refreshing summer drink) - Food term ➜ 水飴・冷やし飴

noun:

• long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path) - めんどう is also written with the ateji 面道 ➜ 寝殿造り

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to blow upon; to breathe on; to spray
• to pick (a fight); to force (unreasonable terms)
• to exaggerate; to overcharge

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood (e.g. of a conversation) ➜ 空気を読む

godan ~る verb:

• to pick out item(s) from a group to keep

noun:

• celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction

expression:

• though it may appear otherwise, it's a small world - proverb

noun:

• charming, enticing smile; smile meant to catch a man's attention

noun:

• mate's rate; preferential rate of payment offered to a friend

noun:

• bowed tendon; type of tendon injury in a horse's leg

noun:

• Storr's pygmy monitor (Varanus storri, species of small carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); Storr's goanna; Storr's monitor

expression:

• thanks for taking care of me; thanks for taking care of my loved one

interjection:

• look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute; hold on - familiar language - female language

adverb:

• anywhere; for all time; to the ends of the earth
• through thick and thin; come hell or high water; to the bitter end; to the utmost
• persistently; stubbornly
• in all respects; on every point
• thoroughly; exhaustively

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to arrive; to reach
• to adhere
• to insist on ➜ 着す

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to put on; to wear

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change (lower-body clothing: shoes, slippers, pants, a skirt, etc.) ➜ 着替える
• to put on the wrong pair of shoes by mistake ➜ 履き違える

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

ichidan verb:

• to begin to write; to begin writing - esp. 書き始める
• to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting - esp. 描き始める

noun:

• late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside; typhoon, esp. one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year ➜ 二百十日・二百二十日・台風
• name of the 28th roll of the Genji monogatari

noun / ~する noun:

• entrusting (something to a person); consignment (of goods); putting in someone's charge; trust; commission