noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

conjunction:

• if it happens that; if we make ...; if we take ...; if we assume ...; what if ...?

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

expression / adjective:

• unable to get along; unable to cooperate; unable to hit it off; not seeing eye to eye - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented - abbreviation ➜ 草食系男子
• men who pretend they aren't interested in women; spineless males; men with no balls - abbreviation - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• swallowing whole; swallowing without chewing
• taking something in without fully understanding it
• accepting without reservation; accepting something as-is

expression:

• expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat

particle:

• particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.) - at sentence-end ➜ もがな
• emphatic particle - at sentence-end - colloquialism
• particle adding uncertainty - often associated with an interrogative

expression:

• it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions; planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be deserved; to be worth it; to have merit; to have value

expression:

• what is called; as it is called; the so-called; known as; so to speak

godan ~く verb:

• to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss
• to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs ➜ 切り金
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds) ➜ 切り金

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tailor; to make (clothing)
• to train; to bring up
• to make it seem like; to pass off
• to turn into a play or movie
• to prepare; to send; to despatch

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

adverb:

• now (after such a long time); at this late hour (i.e. it is too late for something); at this point of time
• afresh; anew; again

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to decide to
• to pretend that - after the past tense form of a verb
• to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to - as 〜ことにしている

noun:

• details; particulars; whole story; sequence of events; chronology; circumstances; how it started; how things got this way ［いきさつ・けいい］
• longitude and latitude ［けいい］
• warp and weft; warp and woof ［けいい・たてぬき・たてよこ］ - orig. meaning of けいい ➜ 縦横【たてよこ】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to hate the very sight of; to hold a grudge against; to treat like an enemy; to bear constant enmity; to be gunning for; to have it in for

expression:

• now that you say that; now that you mention it

noun:

• one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register ➜ 戸籍

noun:

• gatekeeper (in suicide prevention); person who prevents others from committing suicide (by noticing they are depressed and talking to them about it, etc.)
• gatekeeper (in media, networking, etc.)

expression:

• it's always darkest before the dawn; the darkest hour is just before the dawn