noun:

• written report to the gods; imperial edict; written appeal to a superior

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to linger (faint light of twilight); to remain lit in the lingering twilight ➜ 明け残る

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pin the enemy down; to glare another down (and render impotent)

noun:

• uji-kabane system; system of clans and hereditary titles (of the Yamato court) ➜ 氏【うじ】・姓【かばね】

expression:

• in a few days; in the near future; soon; one of these days

noun:

• strong feelings of loyalty to one's old school; the old school tie - four character idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to lurk; to hover in the background
• to be coiled up; to stretch tortuously

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

noun:

• large stone; boulder
• large group of stones (in the game of go)

expression:

• at any rate; in any case; at the very least; if nothing else

expression:

• there are wheels within wheels; there's more than meets the eye - proverb

expression:

• the autumn sun sets as quickly as a bucket dropping into a well - proverb

noun:

• soba water; water left in the pot after one has boiled soba

noun:

• Battle of Dan-no-ura; final battle of the Genpei War (1185) ➜ 壇ノ浦の戦い【だんのうらのたたかい】

noun:

• any shark of genus Centrophorus (esp. the dwarf gulper shark, Centrophorus atromarginatus)

noun:

• blue-ringed octopus (esp. one species, the blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata)

expression:

• be that the case, do so; do as you please; in any case

noun:

• Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)

noun / ~する noun:

• admission by a defendant of the justice of a plaintiff's case; cognovit

noun:

• weekly ideas; weekly thoughts; ideas brought forth at the conclusion of a week

noun:

• the real person; said person - archaism
• real thing; genuine article ［むざね］

noun:

• ancient Chinese pitch pipe (12 pipes corresponding to the ancient Chinese chromatic scale) ➜ 十二律

expression:

• out of sight, out of mind; the dead are forgotten with time - proverb

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem