noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢節 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢節 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen ➜ うた沢

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope)
• to become less tense; to relax; to let one's guard down
• to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax
• to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression); (of ice) to partially melt
• to decrease (e.g. speed)
• (of a market price) to go down slightly

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute

noun / ~する noun:

• decommissioning (of a nuclear reactor, furnace, incinerator etc.); decommissioned nuclear reactor (or furnace, incinerator, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple [literal] - idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to twist; to twirl
• to fiddle around with; to play with; to rewrite
• to rack one's brains

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour)
• to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale; to pale

expression:

• cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make out with; to make cozy with (cosy)
• to do at one's own discretion

noun / ~する noun:

• running alone; running solo
• having a large lead (over the others); being far ahead (of everyone else)
• having one's own way; ignoring others' opinions and acting as one wishes; arbitrary action

noun:

• year on year; on the previous year

noun:

• lucky day
• an unspecified day of the month, used on diplomas, proclamations, etc.

noun:

• chance of going out; opportunity (to succeed)
• musical accompaniment for an actor going on stage

noun:

• knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; fetters
• arrest
• rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)

godan ~る verb:

• to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper); to make up - slang - humorous term

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - archaism ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 左方の楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - obscure term ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• beriberi ➜ 脚気【かっけ】

noun / ~する noun / ~と adverb:

• tearing off something stuck on the surface of something else (e.g. duct tape) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months - archaism

noun:

• show-off bra; wearing clothes that reveal part of the bra (on purpose)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil
• to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to be in a ferment; to take place energetically
• to ferment
• to melt (of metal)

noun / ~する noun:

• venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on

noun / ~する noun:

• getting angry (with someone who is angry with oneself); snapping back (at someone); lashing out (despite being in the wrong) - slang ➜ キレる