noun:

• strength; power; proficiency; ability

suffix noun:

• the strength of ... people; the strength of ... men - after a number of people

adverb / ~の noun:

• some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort

noun:

• brightness of snow; reflected light of snow; (by) snow light

noun:

• sense of the trend of the times; sensitivity to the changing times - four character idiom ➜ 時世感覚

noun:

• Yamaraja (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in
• to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to smash
• to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades) ➜ 撃ち込む
• to input (data); to enter
• to devote oneself to; to go heart and soul into; to throw oneself into; to go head over heels for
• to practice hitting (baseball, tennis, etc.) - Sports term
• to hit (an opponent in kendo, boxing, etc.); to get a blow in - Martial Arts term
• to invade one's opponent's territory (in the game of go); to place a stone in an opponent's formation
• to pour (concrete, etc.) into a form

yodan ~く verb (archaic):

• to lean (esp. of a ripe ear of rice); to incline; to slant; to tilt - archaism
• to behave oddly; to attire oneself strangely - archaism
• to perform kabuki - archaism ➜ 歌舞伎【かぶき】

expression:

• like the young man who tried to walk like the Kantan people, gave up, and forgot how to walk

noun:

• Lamarckian evolutionary theory in which individuals lose characteristics that are not used and develop characteristics that are often used ➜ ラマルク説

noun:

• rhythm and blues; R & B

noun:

• stir-frying then boiling in liquid sauce; food that has been stir-fried and boiled in liquid sauce - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 炒め煮

noun:

• visiting a shrine on New Year's Eve and staying there until (or returning on) New Year's Day

noun:

• frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.)
• scene
• time block (e.g. of a class schedule)

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye; loving someone dearly - idiom

noun:

• business center of a city (centre)
• business center of a hotel (providing fax & copy services, etc.)

noun:

• Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen)
• calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• grounds south of a building; southern garden
• garden south of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in the Kyoto Imperial Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿

expression:

• Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit
• Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ) ➜ ロゴス

noun:

• blowing (e.g. of the wind)

noun / suffix noun:

• playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet)

noun:

• (pair of) bellows ➜ 吹子
• casting; founding; melting

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

expression:

• the good and bad deeds cancel each other out; good deeds make up for the bad - idiom

expression:

• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand with their eyes open; one thousand blind [literal] - proverb - sensitive