noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave a note or document behind; to leave half-written; to leave out

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to sell out
• to sell widely; to sell on a large scale

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sensitive to smoke

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to dislike the company of (someone); to consider (someone) a burden or nuisance

noun:

• family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

noun:

• drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums - Sumo term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change; to alter
• to run counter to; to go against; to break (one's word)
• to make a mistake (in); to err

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom

noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• adding a crowning touch of beauty (to); giving added luster (to); crowning beauty (honor, grace) with even greater glory - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel relieved of one's burden; to have a weight removed from one's mind - idiom

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs

noun:

• great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family) - archaism
• crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• bamboo wall-top spikes (or wood, iron); spikes placed at the top of a wall to repel thieves

noun / ~する noun:

• quitting one's job as a government official to return to live quietly in one's own native region

noun:

• doing something for the first time (ever, in a season, etc.) - polite language ➜ 初【はつ】
• new item; first crop of the season

noun:

• stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 御持たせ物

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language ➜ お持たせ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look on enviously while doing nothing; to look on with a finger in one's mouth [literal] - often 〜て見る

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to make good use of one's spare moments
• to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

noun / ~する noun:

• one-ring scam - From English "one call"
• one ring; disconnecting a call after one ring has gone through

suffix / particle:

• a mere (status or characteristic); implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)

ichidan verb:

• to excuse (someone); to give a holiday to; to make (someone) rest