noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

expression:

• zeal is a bad servant; the person who chases a deer does not see the mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

noun:

• university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)

noun:

• Galeorhinus (genus whose only member is the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, in the family Triakidae)

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)

noun:

• furthest pine tree from a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• rice gruel with mochi - Food term
• azuki bean gruel eaten around the 15th day of the first month - Food term

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be arranged - polite language ➜ 調う

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be wide-eyed (in surprise); to open one's eyes wide (in wonder); to be amazed (at, by)

expression:

• pleased to meet you; how do you do
• my regards (to someone); my greetings; best wishes; remember me to

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to buy all (of something) one can get one's hands on; to buy up; to scoop up

adjectival noun:

• meaningful; suggestive; seeming to be with a history; seeming to be with circumstances that are hard to explain - archaism

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to pull from both ends; to pull from both sides; to play tug of war

noun:

• slide
• change (in value or situation); proportional change

~する noun:

• to slide; to slip
• to change (in value, e.g. with a sliding scale); to change (in situation)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be wavy; to be curled; to be frizzled

adverb:

• being apt to; being liable to; being inclined to

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to flow into; to pour into; to stream into

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be postponed; to be deferred; to be delayed

adverb:

• being apt to; being liable to; being inclined to

suffix:

• apt to do; liable to do; tend to do - describing a negative tendency