expression / ichidan verb:

• to bring (a book) into the world; to publish

ichidan verb:

• to hasten (the work); to urge (a person) on

expression:

• Not a word to anyone; Mum's the word - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• transfer to the records; transcription to a special document

~と adverb / adverb:

• rustling sound - onomatopoeia

noun:

• search (esp. a home search by the police) - obscure term - slang ➜ がさる

noun:

• falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall ➜ 尻餅をつく
• mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside

noun / ~の noun:

• not wearing a mask (in kendo, noh, etc.)
• sober face ➜ 素面【しらふ】
• sobriety ➜ 素面【しらふ】

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• face with no make-up; unpainted face - archaism ➜ 素顔【すがお】

noun:

• long-haired wig used in kabuki (used metaphorically to refer to a thick growth)

noun:

• great and splendid land (of Yamato)
• spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home
• excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• very superior old pale (cognac); VSOP
• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern" ➜ ワンパターン
• VLBI Space Observatory Programme; Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme ➜ 超長距離干渉計【ちょうちょうきょりかんしょうけい】

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

noun:

• inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc. - Buddhism term

noun:

• village office; local administration office in a village ➜ 町役場【まちやくば】

noun:

• bar set in a horizontal position; horizontal bar ➜ 縦棒

godan ~く verb:

• to do in advance; to do as a preparation - contraction of ～しておく - colloquialism

noun:

• spring rain that falls around the time that flowers bloom; spring rain that hastens the blooming of flowers

noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】

noun / ~する noun:

• digestion (of food)
• digestion (of information); assimilation; thorough understanding
• consumption; absorption; using up; meeting (e.g. a quota); completion
• losing one's form and turning into something else - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜【しちよう】

noun:

• flash; flashlight; flashbulb
• flush (poker hand)
• very short scene in a film or TV show - From English "flash"
• newsflash ➜ ニュースフラッシュ
• (Adobe) Flash (animation software)

noun:

• boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes
• hairstyle inspired by such a doll (esp. for female children) (Edo period)

noun:

• magnet school (public school offering special instruction in order to attract a more diverse student body)

noun:

• claw crane; arcade game in which a crane is used to pick up stuffed toys, etc. - From English "crane game"

noun:

• medal; shield; badge
• card on which dharani (etc.) are written ➜ 陀羅尼
• notice board (in a Zen temple)
• tile (mahjong, dominos, etc.) ➜ 牌【パイ】