noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give a warning; to remind (a person) of

noun:

• rising tone (in Chinese)
• (of a Japanese accent) having a high, flat tone

noun:

• chief actor in a kabuki play; star actor; leading actors of a troupe - four character idiom

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

adjectival noun / noun:

• an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

noun:

• umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)

noun:

• always conducting oneself as though one were on a battlefield; being combat ready at all times (of a person) - four character idiom

noun:

• eta (Edo period) ➜ 穢多
• administrator of a temple - Buddhism term ➜ 座主・別当・検校
• low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China) - archaism

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• recitation (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); chanting; singing
• composition (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); composed poem

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
• to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
• to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
• to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
• to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
• to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
• to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
• to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
• to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
• to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
• to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
• to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
• to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• in a day; in a brief space of time - four character idiom

noun:

• pulling out of a market; withdrawing from a market

noun:

• exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (of a smell, esp. a good smell) strong

noun:

• light emanating from a sword; shimmering of a sword

noun:

• widening (of a road)

~する noun:

• to widen (esp. a road)

noun:

• paper for wrapping a letter
• margin of a letter

noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

noun:

• commander-in-chief; leader; head of a group of companies