noun:

• sign staked to a building's ridgepole at construction time stating the building's donor, builder, date, reason for construction, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

expression / ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pull oneself together; to focus one's mind; to brace oneself; to gird up one's loins ➜ 気を引き締める【きをひきしめる】

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered; to lose one's self-control

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be good (at); to go well - from 行ける
• to look (taste, etc.) good
• to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink

noun:

• impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions

noun:

• impressions; thoughts; feelings; opinions

noun:

• occasional thoughts or impressions

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

expression / ichidan verb:

• to constrict one's chest; to wring one's heart; to wrench one's heart

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be descended from; to inherit (a disposition, etc.) from one's ancestors

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to stand in (someone's) place; to be in a (certain) position ➜ 立場

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

noun:

• person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else; person who runs errands; gofer - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 使いっ走り

noun:

• person who has not developed emotional maturity; young person who does not want to become an adult

noun:

• one's own country
• home country (as opposed to a colony)
• country of one's ancestors

counter:

• counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); a noun read using its on-yomi

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a fist; to clench one's fist

expression / ichidan verb:

• to lose a tooth; to lose one's teeth

noun:

• head
• hair (on one's head)
• mind; brains; intellect ［あたま］
• leader; chief; boss; captain
• top; tip
• beginning; start
• head; person ［あたま］
• top structural component of a kanji ［かしら］
• pair ［あたま］ - colloquialism - Mahjong term ➜ 雀頭【ジャントー】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hurt; to injure; to cause pain - usu. 痛める
• to harm; to damage; to spoil - usu. 傷める
• to worry; to bother; to be grieved over; to afflict - usu. 痛める
• to cause financial loss; to hurt one's pocket - usu. 痛める