expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

noun:

• Noraism; women breaking with family and seeking individual freedom (from heroine in Ibsen's "Doll's House")

noun:

• criminal's head on public display; displaying a beheaded head; beheaded head

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get carried away; to push one's luck; to push a good thing too far

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - derogatory or familiar

noun:

• samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami)
• type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• rock fight; stone-throwing fight ➜ 石合戦
• custom by which neighbours or friends threw rocks inside a couple's house on their wedding night

noun:

• period of grace (e.g. in which merchant vessels are allowed to leave a belligerent nation's port after an outbreak of war) - Law term

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to peek (though a keyhole, gap, etc.)
• to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
• to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
• to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
• to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to examine (an expression); to study (a face)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to face - esp. 臨く - archaism ➜ 臨む

expression / ichidan verb:

• to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on
• to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to snuggle up to; to nuzzle; to burrow into; to press a part of one's body against something

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to accurately guess what subjects will turn up on a test; to have one's predictions turn out correct

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun:

• child's seat which attaches to a table for eating - From English "table chair"

expression:

• you've hit the nail on the head; that's just what I thought; that's exactly like I feel; that's exactly what I think, too

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to restore one's energy; to restore one's spirits; to recharge one's batteries

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to snap one's fingers
• to pop one's fingers; to crack one's knuckles

ichidan verb:

• to think something over and over; to rack one's brains; to be at a loss

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument ➜ 糸道【いとみち】