noun:

• adopting a son-in-law into one's family; marrying off one's daughter

noun:

• length of time which food products will keep

~する noun:

• to keep a long time

noun / ~する noun:

• personal selection (esp. of a defense lawyer) - esp. 私選 ➜ 国選
• private selection (e.g. of poetry) - esp. 私撰 ➜ 勅撰

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sever relations (with somebody; esp. a relative or spouse); to break off (with)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to instigate; to incite; to spur on; to set (e.g. a dog after someone)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep
• to give (someone) the slip

noun:

• win of a low-ranked wrestler in the extra eighth bout in the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• loss of a low-ranked wrestler in the extra eighth bout in the tournament - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• pair of persons (especially a married couple) being intimate and harmonious; being happily married - four character idiom ➜ 琴瑟相和す

noun / ~する noun:

• one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• employment of workers through (personal) connections; getting a job through one's personal connection - four character idiom

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to ration out and survive on (some food)
• to eke out a living

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be put at a disadvantage; to get the short end of the stick

noun:

• chopsticks used to move food from a serving dish to one's own dish ➜ 取り皿

noun:

• northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) ➜ 小鷹
• female hawk (or falcon)
• falconry (using a northern goshawk) - abbreviation ➜ 大鷹狩

noun:

• former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer; retired public prosecutor - abbreviation - colloquialism

noun:

• former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer; prosecutor-turned-lawyer - colloquialism

noun:

• cross-selling (selling other products to a customer); cross sell

noun:

• red beard; person with a red beard ［あかひげ］
• Westerner ［あかひげ］ - derogatory term
• Ryukyu robin (Erithacus komadori)

expression / adjective:

• avoided by everybody; disliked by everybody; not even a dog will eat [literal]

noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

expression:

• when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

~と adverb / adverb:

• wet and glistening; slimy; slippery

~する noun:

• to have a sheen; to be slimy

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence