noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

noun:

• raised leg; lifting a leg
• upturn (in the market) ［上げ足・上足］ Antonym: 下げ足
• sitting cross-legged - archaism

noun:

• on-the-sea ballot (votes cast in a federal election by ships' crewmen and sent by fax)

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) - abbreviation ➜ 漫画喫茶

noun:

• Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street - obscure term

noun:

• newspaper article where the journalist gives their own opinions, etc. on a particular topic; op-ed article

noun:

• cheating at pachinko (for monetary gain; through illegal tampering with the machines, etc.); scamming a pachinko parlor - orig. an abbr. of 仕事 ➜ パチンコ

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to drive mad; to upset; to disturb; to confuse
• to cause a malfunction; to throw out of kilter; to put out of order; to derail; to detune (e.g. instrument)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

noun / ~する noun:

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

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to gain a reliable foundation and be in a safe condition; to board a large ship [literal]

expression:

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

expression:

• the student has become the master; blue dye comes from the indigo plant and is bluer than indigo [literal] - proverb

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:

• Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari)
• the Minamoto family

adverb / ~と adverb:

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

expression:

• scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make way for; to make room for; to get out of the way - esp. 道を空ける
• to pave the way for; to open up opportunity - esp. 道を開ける

adjective:

• old; aged; ancient; antiquated; antique; timeworn - of things, not people
• long; since long ago; time-honored
• of the distant past; long-ago
• stale; threadbare; hackneyed; corny
• old-fashioned; outmoded; out-of-date

expression:

• any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune [literal] - proverb

noun:

• low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
• Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds) ➜ 山の手

noun:

• cord for attaching a sword scabbard tightly to the obi; sword strap; sword knot ➜ 鞘