expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

noun:

• pushing up with hands under opponent's armpits; armpit push - Sumo term

noun:

• part of the shrine dedication ceremony at the Hachiman shrine in Yoshitomi, where articulated wooden dolls enact a sumo bout - Shintō term ➜ 紙相撲【かみずもう】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to tear; to rip; to break; to destroy
• to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach
• to defeat; to beat
• to break (e.g. silence); to disturb (e.g. peace); to shatter (e.g. dream); to disrupt; to spoil
• to violate (e.g. rule); to break (e.g. promise); to infringe
• to break (a record)

noun:

• whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha; urna

adverb:

• together (with); at the same time; in a lump

noun / ~する noun:

• going to the capital; working in a government office

noun:

• inversion of the word order in a sentence; anastrophe - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• making a living; getting on in the world; subsistence

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a name entered in the family register ➜ 籍に入れる【せきにいれる】

noun:

• shopping street in the precincts of a shrine (temple)

noun:

• opening ceremony for the new ring in a stable - Sumo term

noun:

• the opposite team in a two-turns work group

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language ➜ ません

noun:

• the present (esp. as a privileged moment in eternity) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• spending the night in a car, train, bus, etc.

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a bath in the open air

noun:

• residence of a government official in the Ryukyu Kingdom - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a name entered in the family register ➜ 籍を入れる【せきをいれる】

noun:

• direct planting of a cutting in the ground

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be a wet-blanket; to spoil a person's pleasure

noun:

• public prosecutor's record of a statement given before a prosecutor - from 検察官面前調書 - abbreviation

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be
• nock (of a bow)
• nock (of an arrow)
• nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger) - Sumo term ➜ はず押し【はずおし】
• wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

noun:

• feminine features; having a girl's face (for a man); girly face