noun:

• (a) militant; (a) belligerent

noun:

• wrapping something in a bamboo mat
• wrapping somebody in a bamboo mat and throwing him in a river (Edo period unofficial punishment)

noun:

• a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable - four character idiom

noun:

• protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field

noun / ~する noun:

• advance (into a new market or stage of progress); launching (a new career or venture); expanding (into a new market); stepping forward; emerging

noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

expression / noun:

• what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

noun:

• great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family) - archaism
• crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• bamboo wall-top spikes (or wood, iron); spikes placed at the top of a wall to repel thieves

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 御持たせ物

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language ➜ お持たせ

suffix / particle:

• a mere (status or characteristic); implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)

noun / ~する noun:

• perusing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously

noun:

• side business; job on the side

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

noun:

• inn where one rests on the way - archaism
• inn that serves as a meeting place for lovers - archaism ➜ 出合い宿
• inn that introduces clients to prostitutes - archaism ➜ 引き手茶屋

noun:

• getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again - Sumo term
• starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fly through the air; to hurtle through the air
• to strike at something and miss; to fan the air

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become; to amount to

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh one thing against the other; to act in consideration of; to compare and take into consideration

ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to just appear; to be half out; to be on the tip of one's tongue

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be launched (e.g. rocket); to lift off
• to be washed up (on the shore)