ichidan verb / transitive:

• to write (a person) up (in a positive or negative light); to write something up so that it stands out; to write up in an exaggerated fashion; to detail; to list

noun:

• cold-suffering bird; kankucho; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes - Buddhism term
• (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori - idiom - derogatory term - Buddhism term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to flow smoothly
• to sell well; to sell out ➜ 捌ける【さばける】

ichidan verb:

• to exit the stage; to remove (a prop) from the stage - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to warp; to bend backwards; to throw the head (or shoulders) back; to throw out the chest

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do something useless; to paint the lily; to gild refined gold; to build a roof atop the roof [literal] ➜ 屋上架屋

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to forgive and forget; to let bygones be bygones; to sweep under the carpet; to wipe the slate clean

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to come down; to go down; to fall; to drop; to sink; to get lower Antonym: 上がる
• to hang; to dangle
• to move back; to step back; to withdraw; to retire
• to deteriorate; to fall off; to be downgraded
• to get closer to the present day
• to go south - in Kyoto

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to deliver; to forward; to send
• to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities); to give notice; to register

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• in a crowd; in droves; in a stream; in succession - onomatopoeia
• crawling (of insects); swarming - onomatopoeia
• dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing; stretching out - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from the speaker, close to the listener) ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・彼方【あちら】
• there (place distant from the speaker, close to the listener)
• that one (something close to the listener)
• you; your family; your company
• that person (someone close to the listener)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to stagnate
• to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to be sedimented
• to become sluggish; to become dull; to become stale
• to be delayed; to hesitate; to falter; to stammer; to stumble

noun:

• leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement - Law term ➜ 独占禁止法

noun / ~の noun:

• third rank (in the Japanese court system)

noun:

• trinity (Christianity); the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

noun:

• provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to elevate; to raise; to lift up
• to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

noun / ~する noun:

• going to war; departure for the front
• departure for military service (in response to a draft)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to say time and time again; to say till you're blue in the face

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to let loose something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the field [literal] - idiom

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘