expression:

• sleep brings up a child well; a well-slept child is a well-kept child - proverb

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

expression:

• You must seize every golden opportunity; Strike while the iron is hot; When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price - four character idiom

noun:

• age of a young lady who is at the peak of her (sexual) attractiveness; marriable age (of a young lady); sweet sixteen

noun:

• skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
• child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me") ➜ 儘【まま】・儘【まま】

expression:

• each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; when there are ministries, there is no country [literal] - proverb

noun:

• being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is - four character idiom

noun:

• humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

noun:

• proportion of forested land; proportion of land which is forested

intransitive verb / yodan ~る verb (archaic):

• to go; to come - honorific language - archaism ➜ いらっしゃる
• to be - honorific language - archaism ➜ いらっしゃる

auxiliary verb / yodan ~る verb (archaic):

• is (doing); are (doing) - honorific language - archaism ➜ いらっしゃる

intransitive verb / yodan ~る verb (archaic):

• to be - after で - polite language - archaism ➜ ござる

noun:

• ruffian; villain; knave; thief; suspicious fellow
• peculiar person; idiosyncratic person; stubborn fellow
• tricky thing; something that is more than it seems
• expert; master; highly skilled person
• goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre; specter

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to deliver the coup de grace
• to put an end to; to deliver the final blow
• to be the best for A - as ＡはＢに止めを刺す

expression:

• people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season); it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of - obscure term

noun:

• exception; exclusion

~する noun:

• to omit; to disallow (e.g. in a sport after a rule is broken); to reject (e.g. faulty product); to eject; to expel; to throw out

expression:

• all is well that ends well; it will all come good in the end - proverb

noun:

• All's Well That Ends Well (play by Shakespeare)

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

expression:

• A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold; enchanting smile of a glamorous woman - four character idiom

expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
• reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

expression:

• rubbernecking; the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

noun:

• origin of a character
• composition of a Chinese character
• Chinese character from which a kana character is derived