noun:

• minced meat or fish with soy sauce, etc. (served on rice) - Food term

noun / adjectival noun:

• shred (e.g. old clothing falling apart); tangle (objects twisted together); thin slices (esp. food)

expression:

• in consideration of; in deference to; out of respect for; for (someone's) sake - as ...に免じて

noun / ~する noun:

• slamming one's hand into the wall in front of somebody (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic) - slang
• banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour) - colloquialism

noun:

• love romance; love story; romance; romance story; romantic fiction

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation

noun:

• pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• well-cured sake; last year's sake; old sake

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be precocious; to be mature for one's age; to seem grown-up; to seem mature

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's hair cut; to cut one's hair

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be good (at); to go well - from 行ける
• to look (taste, etc.) good
• to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink

godan ~る verb / expression:

• to create a debt in one's favor (e.g. by doing someone a favor); to create an obligation in one's favor

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
• to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
• to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to call out the goods one is selling - archaism

noun:

• retirement home; old people's home; senior citizens' home

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• legal guardians' association; parents' association (at a school)
• parent-teacher's meeting

expression:

• once a beggar, always a beggar; if one begs for three days, one cannot stop [literal] - proverb

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to roll in; to tumble into; to visit (esp. to stay overnight as an unwanted guest); to come to live with
• to fall in one's way; to fall into one's lap

noun:

• fighting scene; scene of carnage (bloodshed)
• location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra ［しゅらじょう］ ➜ 阿修羅【あしゅら】・帝釈天【たいしゃくてん】
• difficulties (in a love relationship) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism
• crunch time (esp. for cartoonists) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism

noun:

• iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards ➜ 居合い
• iai sword-drawing performance (used during the Edo period to sell medicine and other wares)

noun:

• lower part; foot; lower direction
• left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

noun:

• between (e.g. two people); face to face
• hindrance; impediment
• arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music - usually written using kana alone - Music term

prefix:

• prefix used for stress or emphasis

counter:

• counter for traditional dance songs

noun:

• room for zazen meditation; room for Buddhist practices ➜ 座禅
• Zen monk's quarters
• head priest (of a Zen temple)

noun:

• junior high school graduate; middle school graduate - abbr. of 中学校卒業 - abbreviation

godan ~く verb:

• to recover one's strength; to recover one's spirit; to revive; to be refreshed; to be invigorated; to be encouraged