noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun:

• force of a literary style

noun:

• name of a tea blend

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun:

• unbuttoning a collar
• opening up (one's heart)
• open-necked shirt - abbreviation ➜ 開襟シャツ

noun:

• pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to give a dinner party; to hold a banquet

noun:

• child born within a year of another; children born in consecutive years

adjectival noun / noun:

• being older or a senior; the first half of the year

expression / noun:

• leaving a matter to chance

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fall down with a "plop"

noun:

• right place; right position; right post

noun:

• crossing a border; border entry

noun:

• corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 中門・寝殿造り

noun:

• aiding and abetting a robbery

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

noun:

• large paper lantern on a pole

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get a laugh

noun / ~する noun:

• coming of a visitor to one's home

noun:

• draft of a standard; draft standard

noun:

• lord of a manor
• estate steward

noun:

• member of a standing committee

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to put on a moderate amount of lean or firm weight; to gain healthy weight (e.g. from muscle); to become overweight as opposed to obese

noun:

• ancestor who rejuvenated a dynasty or a family