noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• Mary Celeste; famous British ship found in 1872 without crew or passengers
• archetypal ghost ship; unmanned ship

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to set somebody to work in an arrogant fashion; to push somebody around; to indicate by pointing one's chin [literal] ➜ 頤で人を使う【あごでひとをつかう】
• to chatter; to jaw; to jabber - slang

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set one's hand to; to start work on
• to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion)
• to have sexual relations; to have an affair

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers) - colloquialism ➜ 凄い

noun:

• type Japanese folkloric monster (yokai), thought to be a trio of weasels who appear in a whirlwind to cut their victim
• cut caused by whirlwind

expression:

• metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed) - Buddhism term

noun:

• room or pavilion of residence for the master of the house (Heian period palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造
• room where the emperor usually lives in the imperial palace

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to market (something); to feature (something to sell); to trade in (something); to securitize

noun:

• middle point; median point ［ちゅうてん］
• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)

noun:

• yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - colloquialism ➜ 山姥・ガングロ

noun:

• between (e.g. two people); face to face
• hindrance; impediment
• arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music - usually written using kana alone - Music term

prefix:

• prefix used for stress or emphasis

counter:

• counter for traditional dance songs

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to throw in a shrimp and pull out a whale; to use a sprat to catch a mackerel; to get big returns on a small investment - idiom

noun:

• one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives) ➜ 戸籍【こせき】

noun:

• ridge of earth between rice fields
• ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel
• footpath between rice fields; causeway - abbreviation ➜ 畦道

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fail (in getting a job); to miss out (at fishing, hunting, etc.)
• to be left out; to be crowded out

noun:

• sitz bath; sitting bath; bath for the lower half of the body
• lower pool (e.g. in an onsen); lower bath

noun:

• toe-in (alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back)

expression:

• if you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated; know your enemy - from Sun Tzu's The Art of War - proverb

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in time for
• to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough