expression / godan ~く verb:

• to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on ➜ 主眼

auxiliary:

• please - used to make a polite request or demand - polite language ➜ ます
• used to increase the politeness of a greeting, apology, etc.

noun:

• ornamental plant used primarily for the visual effect of its fruit

noun:

• mochi used for the celebration of a child's fiftieth day ➜ 五十日の祝

noun:

• Heian-period boarding school (for children of a specific noble clan) established near the former central university of Kyoto ➜ 大学寮・七大私学

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

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】

noun:

• study of calculation (ritsuryo period); the way of calculation

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term

noun:

• taiko; title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son - esp. refers to Toyotomi Hideyoshi - honorific language ➜ 関白【かんぱく】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha); to pay one's respects
• to beg; to make a supplication
• to see (something or someone of high status) - sometimes used sarcastically in modern Japanese - humble language

noun / ~する noun:

• finishing (a race); running the whole distance; reaching the goal; staying the course

noun:

• restoring the declining fortunes; recovering from the discouraging situation; reversing the downward trend - four character idiom

noun:

• the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter - archaism

noun:

• the Red Peril

noun:

• qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

noun:

• spine; line of the backbone
• seam down the back (of clothing)

noun:

• xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast)

noun:

• dui (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: swamp, west)

noun:

• worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism - four character idiom

noun:

• scholar who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom

noun:

• the orientation of time and place; awareness of the existing situation - four character idiom

noun:

• worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism - four character idiom

noun:

• kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest)

noun:

• gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)