adverb:

• a great deal; very much; a lot - onomatopoeia
• with a great amount of effort - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• being a match for a thousand; being a mighty warrior (combatant, player) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• going up a tower; going into a tall building; visiting a brothel

expression / ichidan verb:

• to invent a pretext for a quarrel; to pick a fight

noun:

• middle of a body of water (e.g. a lake, a river)

noun:

• study (for a role); preparation for a part (in a play, etc.)

noun:

• declaring a concealed kong; forming a concealed four-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• brokering; broker - abbreviation
• handing materials up a ladder (to a plasterer); assistant who hands things up a ladder (to a plasterer)
• pole used to hand things up a ladder ➜ 才取り棒

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】

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

noun:

• right or wrong; good or bad; quality; suitability
• having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages

noun:

• reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature ［座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰］

noun / ~する noun:

• counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり

noun:

• hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り

noun / ~する noun:

• hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding - four character idiom

expression:

• something very unexpected; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse comes from a gourd [literal]

noun:

• coming out; emerging
• being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)

noun:

• Imperial surname; title borne by a prince of the blood as a head of a house ➜ 宮家【みやけ】

noun:

• sake bottle; tall and slender bottle with a narrow mouth made from ceramic, metal or glass that can be used for sake, shoyu or rice vinegar
• turtleneck (sweater)
• someone who cannot swim

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime) - usu. 陥れる
• to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to reduce - usu. 陥れる
• to drop (something) into - orig. meaning; usu. 落とし入れる

noun:

• monk's working clothes; monk's non-spiritual clothes - Buddhism term

noun:

• child's mind; child's heart; young mind

noun:

• Sanford's brown lemur (Eulemur sanfordi); Sanford's lemur

adverb:

• often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently

adverb / ~と adverb:

• a tiny bit; just a smidgin; a wee bit; very slightly - onomatopoeia

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to put back up; to stand back up
• to restore (to former strength); to revive (e.g. the economy); to reorganize; to rearrange; to put right; to recover; to put back on its feet
• to make again (a plan, policy, etc.); to reformulate; to revise