expression:

• a single instance indicates what happens all the time; one case gives you an idea of what always happens

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to act as a receptacle; to receive; to take on; to host ➜ 受け皿

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• tall geta with a single tooth

noun:

• area where a string of nuclear power plants are located - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• visiting a shrine

noun:

• maintaining the quality of a flower; lasting quality of a cut flower

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait for a favorable chance; to wait for a favourable chance

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• a little too short
• slightly worse; a bit inferior

noun:

• prostitute working at a soapland; Turkish girl [literal] - sensitive ➜ ソープレディ・ソープランド

noun:

• young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation, drives a car, etc. (unlike the majority who moves to a larger city and commutes by train) ➜ ヤンキー

noun:

• household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier ➜ 食封

noun:

• caterer in a red-light district - archaism

noun:

• bulletin board displaying the name, age, offence, etc. of a criminal sentenced to death (Edo period) - archaism

godan ~く verb:

• to drop a few lines

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• man used by a woman to pay for her meals - slang ➜ 飯【めし】

noun:

• doing a good deed each day; doing one good turn a day - four character idiom

noun:

• stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryo system) ➜ 封戸

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw a sword

noun:

• food set out on a stand; gift placed on a stand
• food brought on a large stand to a brothel by a red-light district caterer - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• taking over a duty

expression:

• a samurai never goes back on his word - proverb

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り