expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to take measures (in face of events being anticipated)
• to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain
• to clap one's hands together

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to set a high value on
• to take good care of; to look after

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to harvest; to reap
• to take in; to gather in
• to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice); to introduce; to borrow (e.g. word)

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

prefix:

• august (in ref. to the emperor or the gods); imperial; divine - honorific language

noun:

• Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido ➜ 蝦夷地【えぞち】

ichidan verb / transitive:

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

~する verb (spec.):

• to take part in; to be implicated in; to side with; to support

godan ~る verb:

• to draw a tile from the wall - Mahjong term ➜ 自摸
• to win on a self-drawn tile - Mahjong term ➜ 自摸

expression:

• to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi) [literal] ➜ 管窺【かんき】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be ready and waiting for; to be on the alert for - from 手に薬煉を引く ➜ 薬煉

noun:

• person adrift on the sea; castaway (on an island)

noun:

• manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) ➜ 御用人
• useful person

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

expression / noun:

• the harmonizing, mentally and physically, of two parties engaged in an activity; singing from the same hymn-sheet; dancing to the same beat - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• practice (in the field); training (esp. practical and hands-on); practical exercise; drill

noun:

• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan) - abbreviation ➜ 東海道五十三次【とうかいどうごじゅうさんつぎ】

noun:

• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be balding in the front; to have a receding hairline

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to meet someone in person; to have the pleasure of meeting

expression / ichidan verb:

• to advance to the next stage (e.g. in a tournament)

noun:

• disposition to operate in the red; tendency to have chronic deficits

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to collect; to put (it all) together; to integrate; to consolidate; to unify
• to summarize; to aggregate
• to bring to a conclusion; to finalize; to settle; to put in order
• to establish; to decide

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to put clothes on (someone)
• to plate; to gild; to veneer
• to accuse (of some crime); to give (a bad name)

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to bear; to carry on one's back ➜ 背負う
• to take responsibility for; to accept a duty
• to be injured
• to owe