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 / noun:

• what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

expression / ichidan verb:

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

noun / ~の noun:

• (similar to) perinatal; period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born

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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dismiss (from a position)
• to exempt; to excuse from; to forgive

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to dismiss (from a position)
• to exempt; to excuse from; to forgive

noun:

• play put on in a village; play put on by villagers

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give (a person) first-aid; to administer first aid

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fail to earn a credit
• to fail to make the grade

noun:

• omelette-wrapped eel; basted, roasted eel wrapped in a rolled omelette - Food term ➜ 卵焼き