noun:

• shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)
• barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

noun:

• area on the concave side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 外帯
• area of southwestern Japan north of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本内帯

noun:

• area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 内帯
• area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本外帯

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become muddy; to become cloudy; to get impure (of a liquid, gas, etc.)
• to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse
• to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted
• to become voiced; to add voiced consonant marks ➜ 濁り【にごり】

noun:

• court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period)
• separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period) ➜ 曹司
• room for a very low class prostitute
• very low class prostitute ➜ 局女郎

noun:

• pot of chicken or seafood, and vegetables in a dashi broth, usu. cooked at the table (traditionally a winter meal); seafood and vegetable stew or chowder ➜ 寄せ

noun:

• taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to decide to
• to pretend that - after the past tense form of a verb
• to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to - as 〜ことにしている

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to chop off; to snip off; to cut off (e.g. a conversation)
• to fire (a person)

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend) ➜ 遊びに来る

noun / ~する noun:

• happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family - four character idiom

godan ~す verb:

• to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance) ➜ 逸する
• to overlook; to omit; to forget
• to deviate; to depart from (the norm, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to trample down; to crush underfoot; to kick down
• to avoid paying (e.g. a debt); to jump (a bill); to bilk; to shirk

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

noun / ~する noun:

• sideslip; skid; sliding sideways
• shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company)
• sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)

noun / ~する noun:

• losing by being overmatched; being defeated by a stronger opponent
• losing by misusing one's powers; defeat as a result of trying too hard

noun:

• impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom

noun:

• impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to drag things out; to creep up slowly on the point; to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope) [literal]

expression / noun:

• fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to attack; to assail; to make an assault; to strike; to hunt down
• to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.)
• to make a sudden visit

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to imitate; to copy; to mimic
• to enter someone as a candidate
• to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)
• to compare; to liken

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to imitate; to copy; to mimic ➜ 擬する
• to enter someone as a candidate
• to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)
• to compare; to liken

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a bad time; to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to suffer ➜ 目にあう【めにあう】