expression / noun:

• changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons ➜ 移り変わり【うつりかわり】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite (at); to snap at
• to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat

noun / ~する noun:

• on-the-spot filming or photography

noun:

• live filming (as opposed to animation); actual picture (as opposed to a drawing); photographic image (as opposed to a drawing, computer-generated image, etc.)
• real picture or story (as opposed to fiction, imaginary scene, etc.); describing actual scenes (in writing, drawings, paintings, etc.); documentary (film)

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language ➜ 約束

noun / ~の noun:

• something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

adjectival noun / noun:

• dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)
• not up to the task; (being) out of one's depth - colloquialism ➜ 力不足【ちからぶそく】

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thundering; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach) - onomatopoeia
• something large and heavy starting to roll - onomatopoeia
• scattered about; common; commonplace; all over - onomatopoeia
• idleness; idling about - onomatopoeia
• having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• thunder - children's language - onomatopoeia

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of
• to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to touch; to come in contact with; to border on; to adjoin; to be adjacent; to be close - archaism ➜ 接する【せっする】
• to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to serve; to take care of; to look after; to deal with; to see - archaism
• to receive (news); to get; to hear - archaism
• to encounter; to come across - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make touch; to bring into contact with; to bring adjacent to; to bring close; to connect - archaism

expression:

• you have only to; all you have to (do); all that's required; as long as; if only

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

noun / ~の noun:

• one (esp. of two); the other; one way; the other way; one direction; the other direction; one side; the other side; one party; the other party

conjunction:

• on the other hand ➜ 一方【いっぽう】

noun:

• root (of a plant)
• root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.)
• root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis
• one's true nature
• (fishing) reef

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to mince; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to shred
• to carve; to engrave; to chisel; to notch
• to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to record the passing moments
• to etch (into one's mind); to remember distinctly - as 心に刻む, etc. ➜ 心に刻む
• to have tattooed - archaism
• to torment - archaism

noun:

• old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
• Meiji period women's hairstyle
• type of dance in kabuki ［揚げ巻・揚巻］
• knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) ［揚げ巻・揚巻］ - Sumo term
• constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to eat - male language
• to live; to make a living; to survive
• to bite; to sting (as insects do)
• to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of
• to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
• to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
• to consume time and-or resources
• to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event) - colloquialism
• to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time - male language - vulgar

adverbial noun / noun:

• limit; limits; bounds
• degree; extent; scope
• as far as possible; as much as possible; to the best of one's ability; very much
• unless (after neg. verb)
• the end; the last

suffix:

• as long as; only

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to shake each other's hands; to shake hands with each other

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice