expression / godan ~る verb:

• to impersonate someone; to go under a false name; to make fraudulent use of someone's name ➜ 騙る【かたる】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to pass by one another
• to miss meeting each other; to miss each other
• to disagree

expression:

• fight fire with fire; set a thief to catch a thief; fight one evil with another - idiom

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun / suffix noun:

• bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha - Buddhism term
• High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court)
• title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory ➜ 本地垂迹説

noun:

• Marquesas butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis declivis); Wilder's butterflyfish (Chaetodon declivis wilderi)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be renewed; to change ［改まる］
• to be improved; to be reformed; to be revised; to be corrected ［改まる］
• to stand on ceremony; to be formal ［改まる］
• to take a turn for the worse (of an illness); to take a serious turn

noun:

• lipstick that actors put on their earlobes, cheeks and corners of eyes
• lipstick discreetly put on the earlobes or the corners of the eyes (by women)

expression:

• I thought so; I suspected as much; Just as I thought; Now you are talking; That's the spirit - colloquialism

noun:

• Desjardin's sailfin tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii, species of Indian Ocean tang); Indian sail-fin surgeonfish; Red Sea sailfin tang

expression / noun:

• why-why analysis; method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root cause(s) of a problem

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor

noun:

• nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum); apple of Sodom; titty fruit; cow's udder - From English "foxface"
• foxface (Siganus vulpinus, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); fox face; fox-face - From English "foxface"

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

noun:

• fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires)
• New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine
• festival involving fire dedicated to the gods

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• inscription on the bathtub of King Tang ("If you can renovate yourself one day, then you can do so every day, and keep doing so day after day.")

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to restrict; to limit; to confine

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be confined to
• to be best (for); to be the best plan; to be the only way (to) - as ...は...に限る

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; to twist a baby's arm [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤子の腕をひねる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; to twist a baby's arm [literal] - obscure term - idiom ➜ 赤子の手をひねる

conjunction:

• then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case ➜ それなら

noun:

• clerical appearance; appearance of a priest - Buddhism term
• teachings of Buddha; condition of the universe at creation; in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha; investiture of a Buddhist priest

noun:

• lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market)
• skilled batter; batter on a hot streak - Baseball term
• accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
• barbershop

noun:

• single-parent family; one-parent family; single-parent household

noun:

• extraordinary Diet session; extraordinary session of the Diet; session of the Diet convoked by the Cabinet by need or house request