expression:

• a wholesome household can not be disturbed from the outside; a house divided against itself cannot stand; a firm fence keeps the dogs out [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Fukko Shinto; Restoration Shinto; Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far ➜ 抜群

noun:

• 100% buckwheat noodles; buckwheat noodles made from buckwheat flour only, without the addition of wheat flour ➜ 生そば【なまそば】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a risk for someone; to endanger oneself for someone; to gather chestnuts from the fire [literal] - orig. from the fable The Monkey and the Cat by Jean de La Fontaine - idiom

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to eat (fodder, grass, etc.)
• to receive (a salary); to receive a stipend from one's lord

expression / ichidan verb:

• to digress; to stray from the subject
• to miss the target; to fly wide of the mark

noun:

• silver crown (dental crown made from mercury amalgam)
• crown made of silver

expression / ichidan verb:

• to withdraw from a society; to quit an association; to give up one's membership of a society

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change way one holds something; to transfer something from one hand to the other

noun:

• skirt steak; meat cut from the diaphragm
• belly meat (e.g. salmon); peritoneal meat (e.g. chicken)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to remove; to clear away
• to except from; to make an exception of
• to lay aside; to set aside

adjectival noun:

• proper

noun:

• propagandist; propaganda - abbreviation
• full time (staff); career (job title) (e.g. someone who has worked in the same area from the start)
• regular price; net price

noun:

• stone paving; cobble paving; sett; flagstone
• stone steps ➜ 石段
• check (pattern) ➜ 市松
• pavé; rectangular dessert (usu. made from chocolate or several layers of sponge cake) ［石畳・石だたみ・石畳み］ - Food term

noun:

• proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pull out; to draw out; to disconnect
• to steal contents of; to pilfer (from); to pickpocket

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dump (a load of something)
• to throw from a height; to throw downwards

ichidan verb:

• to be affected by (e.g. heat); to suffer from
• to be embarrassed; to be annoyed

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be factually incorrect; to differ from the actual facts; to not be the case

noun / ~する noun:

• letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿

noun:

• Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era) ➜ 穴窯

noun:

• kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards) - archaism
• (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu ➜ 布衣【ほい】

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor