noun:

• rushing to get on the train (bus, etc.) before the door closes

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut; to have a heart-to-heart talk

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stay bottled up inside oneself; to be introverted
• to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place); to have a gloomy appearance

noun:

• gift for close relatives or friends (given on the occasion of a family celebration)
• family celebration; private celebration

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to carry around; to carry on one's person

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start with the looks; to start (at the wrong end) by focusing on the superficial

noun:

• short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole ➜ うだつが上がらない

noun:

• book of stamps (each confirming donation to a temple on a pilgrimage)

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

expression:

• evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; a skink lizard's shedding of its tail [literal] - idiom

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

adverb:

• incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion

noun / ~する noun:

• opportunism; waiting and seeing (how the wind blows); sitting on the fence; straddling

noun:

• ceremonial bonfire (seeing off the spirits on the final night of O-Bon)

noun:

• welcoming fire for returning spirits (on the first night of the Bon festival) Antonym: 送り火 ➜ お盆

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) - obscure term ➜ 宋学

noun:

• incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion ➜ 序でに

noun:

• water left in buckets on the roadside during the summer for travellers

noun / ~の noun:

• the aged; old person

noun:

• the very same person - four character idiom

noun:

• dead person; the deceased

noun:

• wealth and military strength of a country; "rich country, strong army": a slogan from the Meiji era referring to the government's goals for the country - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change clothes (on someone else, e.g. child, doll); to change the wallpaper or skin (of a smart phone, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look at; to gaze at; to watch; to stare at
• to look out over; to get a view of; to admire (e.g. the scenery)
• to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch; to observe