noun:

• lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

godan ~る verb:

• to pledge; to vow; to promise; to swear
• to have sexual intercourse (esp. between husband and wife); to share a bed

noun / ~の noun:

• pons (pontes); pons Varolii; pontine; part of the brain stem (links the medulla oblongata and cerebellum with the midbrain)

noun:

• ticket good for multiple performances (e.g. a whole day, including matinee and evening performances); season ticket; through ticket [literal] ➜ 通し切符

noun:

• obsession with radiation effects (esp. after the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima reactor problems); person obsessed with radiation; radiation brain [literal] - humorous term - colloquialism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to take (a resource, e.g. time or money) ➜ 時間がかかる

godan ~る verb:

• to hang
• to come into view; to arrive ➜ お目にかかる
• to come under (a contract, a tax)
• to start (engines, motors)
• to attend; to deal with; to handle

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to have started to; to be on the verge of

godan ~る verb:

• to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to (come) at

godan ~る verb:

• to be fastened ➜ 鍵がかかる
• to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)
• to be caught in ➜ 罠にかかる
• to get a call ➜ 電話が掛かる
• to depend on

noun:

• sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 迷い箸

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 惑い箸

noun:

• Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)

noun:

• all sides; the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions
• large hanging lantern ➜ 八方行灯

noun:

• the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace

godan ~る verb:

• to clamber; to climb with hands and feet; to crawl up; to creep up ➜ 這い上がる【はいあがる】

noun:

• yellow sand; yellow dust; Asian dust; dust carried on high winds from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan
• loess ➜ 黄土
• desert ➜ 砂漠

expression / adjective:

• being driven into a corner; having no way out; being caught between a rock and a hard place

noun:

• existence (as we perceive it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning - obscure term - four character idiom - Buddhism term

ichidan verb:

• to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet

expression / adverb:

• with all one's strength; with might and main; as hard as one can

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to spring up; to leap to one's feet; to jump up and down

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

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