expression:

• the more you do (it), the... (e.g. "the more you drink, the better it tastes")

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to ransack (a drawer); to rummage; to stir up (mud); to throw into confusion; to tamper with

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to run off; to break into a run; to start running

noun:

• refusing to allow a passenger on board a train or into a bus or taxi

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to attract someone's affection
• to sound out somebody
• to get one's hooks into

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to blacken (something); to make something black
• to talk wrong into right

noun / ~する noun:

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

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to sink (into); to cave in; to get stuck in

godan ~く verb:

• to bite at; to snap at; to sink one's teeth into

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun:

• vocation; lifework; calling
• sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation)
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period) ➜ 天神

noun:

• the easy way; attaining rebirth in the Pure Land through the vows of Amitabha (as opposed to one's own efforts) - Buddhism term ➜ 難行道

noun:

• thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term

noun:

• wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
• going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation

noun:

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

noun:

• fleeting life; this transient world; floating world
• sad world; world of grief and worry - esp. 憂き世
• the world of the living; this life; this world; the present world
• (the world of the) red light districts

noun:

• beginning of the month or the year; New Year's Day; the calendar

noun:

• conveyance of the opinions of the lower classes to the powers that be - four character idiom

noun:

• hero package (commercial in which the product is the hero of the segment)

noun:

• 'ra'-removed; the practice of skipping the 'ra' from the 'rareru' verb conjugation - abbreviation ➜ ら抜き言葉

noun:

• the Revelation of St. John the Divine (book of the Bible) ➜ 黙示録

noun:

• the eight ministries (under the Grand Council of State of the ritsuryo system) ➜ 太政官