expression:

• it is too late to show filial piety once your parents are dead - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to boil something until it is done (e.g. vegetables) ➜ 茹で上がる【ゆであがる】

noun:

• Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant); IS; ISIL

expression:

• following the desires of one's own heart without transgressing what is right - from the Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression / noun:

• video game in which the player is likely to die frequently - slang ➜ ゲー

expression:

• content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold - proverb ➜ 足るを知る

expression:

• you can make friends anywhere; not even in hell is everyone an ogre [literal] - proverb

adverb:

• in this manner; in this way; like this

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - polite language ➜ 様だ
• like; similar to ➜ 様だ

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

noun:

• zip fastener; zipper; zip - poss. from 巾着 (きんちゃく)
• chuck (device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to ruin one's reputation in later life; to tarnish one's twilight years

noun / adjectival noun:

• knowing how to get on in the world; knowing the secret of success in life - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• knowing how to get on in the world; knowing the secret of success in life - four character idiom

noun:

• francolin (partridge-like bird of genus Francolinus)
• partridge (of genus Perdix) - archaism ➜ 山鶉

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a decision by using a circular letter; reaching a decision via a document circulated to all employees

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

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 / ~する noun:

• lighting a torch; lighting up a lamp

noun:

• person who leads a funeral procession with a torch

noun:

• (Edo-period variety of) realistic literature; popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period

noun:

• decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; rotten wood
• obscure, meaningless life (metaphor) ➜ 朽ちる

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living

expression:

• most thrilling relationships for a man (another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife)

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

noun:

• (a) jump
• splashes (usu. of mud)
• upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo) - often 撥ね
• close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup