noun:

• approach (to a castle gate)
• front of a structural member ➜ 見込み【みこみ】

noun:

• secondary substantive (inflectable word or phrase that acts as an uninflectable within a sentence) - Linguistics term

noun:

• diplomatic recognition (of a country)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.)
• to dry the bottom of a ship (to prevent insect damage)

noun / ~の noun:

• made by hitting (e.g. striking stone flakes from a tool stone); made using lithic reduction ➜ 打製石器

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hang up the receiver (of a telephone)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to push through (a crowd, vegetation, etc.)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sudden and unexpected (as in a person's death)

noun:

• primitive shrine (originally a swath of sacred land surrounded by evergreens; later a decorated sakaki branch on an eight-legged table) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• beheading (as the ending to a seppuku)
• assistance; help

noun:

• second blooming (in a season); reflowering; reflorescence ➜ 返り咲き【かえりざき】
• return to working by a prostitute, kabuki actor, etc. - archaism

noun:

• Scan Talk (brand name for a barcode system for recording and playing back brief sequences of sound)

expression:

• full-just-low (name of a Toyota truck)

ichidan verb:

• to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together

noun:

• (punishment by being placed in a) water-filled chamber

noun:

• point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)

noun:

• Kukai (name of a Buddhist priest)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hold aloft (e.g. a sword); to brandish

noun / ~する noun:

• burial (disposal of a body) by exposure to the elements; aerial sepulture (burial)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang (a curtain); to droop (a tail); to lower (a blind)

noun:

• free dressmaking ticket (with a purchase of cloth)

noun:

• writing (especially of a Zen monk); penmanship

expression:

• those who wish to rule the land must first cultivate their own characters, then manage their families, then govern their states; only then can they bring peace to the land (a mantra of Confucianism) - proverb

noun:

• transverse flute (e.g. a fife) ➜ 縦笛

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)