expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet in a friendly manner; to treat someone as if they were a guest in one's own home

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sika deer and maple leaves (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal]

noun:

• link; connection; tie; bond; contact

noun / ~の noun:

• filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.)

noun:

• thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; liaison
• hedging; hedge - Finance term ➜ ヘッジ
• overalls; coveralls; boiler suit
• intermission (in kabuki); interval

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misplace; to put in the wrong place
• to make a mistake in deciding the winner - Sumo term

noun:

• festival held in July in Fukuoka City; Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival (often just called Yamakasa Festival)

expression:

• meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; likewise; equally; at the same time - usu. その一方で
• in contrast

expression / ichidan verb:

• to check (in chess)
• to threaten (somebody's position, etc.); to close in (on somebody) - idiom

expression:

• the pot calling the kettle black; the goop in the eye laughing at the snot in the nose [literal] - idiom

expression:

• once over the borders one may do anything; what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas; shame (committed while) on a journey can be scratched away [literal] - proverb

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) ➜ 唐行き【からゆき】

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to be in common; to have in common
• to be in mutually understood
• to be mutually connected; to have a link

noun:

• Rustication Movement; movement in China in 1957 to get people to move to the countryside

noun:

• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造

ichidan verb:

• to carry in one's own hands; to carry in a manner that is obvious to others - colloquialism ➜ 提げる【さげる】

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

noun:

• hole in the curtains to allow someone backstage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre) - obscure term
• public observation; feel of being watched; casual observers - obscure term ➜ 人目

noun / ~する noun:

• immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to

noun / ~の noun:

• homophony; same pronunciation; same sound - Linguistics term
• unison; same pitch - Music term
• (in) one voice; (speaking in) unison

noun:

• fire in the neighborhood; fire in the neighbourhood

noun:

• book in Japanese
• book bound in the Japanese style ➜ 和本

noun:

• luck in a lottery; luck in a raffle

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to welter in blood; to be covered in blood

noun:

• breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation - four character idiom

noun:

• belief in the next world; belief in the hereafter - four character idiom