noun:

• ornamental garden stone (seemingly placed randomly to give the garden a more natural appearance)
• sacrificed stone (in the game of go) ➜ 捨て駒

noun:

• physical labor; physical labour; manual work; heavy work ［荒業］
• drastic move (e.g. hold or strike in martial arts); power technique; display of power

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

noun:

• three ministries (under the ritsuryo system: Ministries of Civil Services, Health & War) ➜ 律令制
• three departments (in Tang-dynasty China: Secretariat, Chancellory & Dept. of State Affairs)

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end

noun:

• form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

noun:

• arm glove; arm warmer; sleevelet
• bracelet
• leather thread on guard or pommel of a sword
• hole in the butt end of a Chinese spear

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place)
• to be limited to; to be confined to

expression / ichidan verb:

• to contemplate; to ponder; to think over; to turn over in one's mind; to reflect; to muse; to ruminate

~と adverb / adverb:

• whistling (of the wind); blowing
• fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying
• tottering; staggering
• aimlessly; wandering about; roaming
• aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached

noun:

• brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area
• miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

adverb / expression:

• before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• a long time (since the last time); first in a long time

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be seen; to be in sight
• to look; to seem; to appear
• to come - honorific language

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many ➜ 余り・余り

noun / ~する noun:

• being in charge of; taking charge of

noun:

• class teacher; homeroom teacher; form teacher ➜ 担任教師

godan ~む verb:

• to be in high spirits; to be encouraged; to be lively; to cheer up

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to not give in; to be obstinate; to be stubborn; to be perverse

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be congenial; to agree with one; to be in one's nature

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to float in the air
• to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided

expression:

• in order to be(come)... ➜ となる
• since it amounts to...
• since it is advantageous to...

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get beneath someone's skin; to in someone's hair; to irritate

lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to be seen; to be in sight - archaism ➜ 見える【みえる】
• to look; to seem; to appear - archaism ➜ 見える【みえる】
• to come - archaism - honorific language ➜ 見える【みえる】

noun:

• Olympic Cauldron lighter; Olympic torch lighter; last runner in the Olympic torch relay