expression:

• red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning - proverb

noun:

• current master; father of one's current master - honorific language ➜ 若殿【わかとの】
• minister (of government); noble - honorific language
• nobleman's residence - honorific language - archaism

noun:

• Anderson's crocodile newt (Echinotriton andersoni); Anderson's newt; Ryukyu spiny newt; Japanese warty newt

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

expression:

• you can't give (use) what you don't have; nothing comes from nothing; you can't shake sleeves you don't have [literal]

noun:

• driving off birds
• procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house
• female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen
• street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

expression / ichidan verb:

• to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl

noun:

• New Year's Day - colloquialism ➜ 元日
• New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day - orig. meaning

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take someone's place; to step into someone's shoes; to succeed someone in his post ➜ 後釜

godan ~る verb:

• to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way

noun / ~する noun:

• removing one's hat
• admiring someone greatly; "taking off one's hat" to someone

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's heart and soul into; putting one's all into

noun:

• intimacy; familiarity - archaism ➜ 昵懇【じっこん】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to strain (one's ears, eyes); to prick up (one's ears)

noun:

• one's support (power) base; the base of one's support in an electorate - four character idiom

noun:

• expansion of one's sphere of influence; increase in one's power (strength, influence) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• failing to live up to one's name; being beaten by one's name

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to use one's own money; to pay for from one's own pocket

noun:

• blue trevally (Carangoides ferdau); banded trevally; barred trevally; Ferdau's trevally; Forskaal's jackfish

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to sound out a person's feelings; to consult a person's pleasure [literal] ➜ 鼻息【はないき】

noun / ~の noun:

• at one's feet; underfoot; one's step (as in "watch your step")

noun:

• gait; pace; step

~の noun:

• most recent; current

pronoun:

• you; thou

noun:

• New Year's greetings; New Year's card

noun:

• one's first campaign; one's first battle

noun:

• in one's hands; in one's control