godan ~く verb:

• to be absorbed in a play

noun:

• Nobel Prize in Literature

noun:

• government office in charge of court music (ritsuryo period) ➜ 雅楽・律令

expression:

• something so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success - obscure term

noun:

• thawing of the ground in spring - archaism

noun:

• educational facility established in affiliation with a government agency

noun:

• bamboo screen still in place in autumn - obscure term

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り

noun:

• add-in software - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• traffic network extending in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to find a food one likes by rummaging in one's dish, pot, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

~の noun:

• perfectly in sync; in step (dancing); on the same wavelength

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a person in one's service; to employ

noun:

• smack in the middle; perfect strike; bull's eye - colloquialism ➜ ど・ストライク

adjectival noun:

• perfect (for something or someone); just right; just the way one likes it - colloquialism

noun:

• attacking in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• a tax in kind

noun:

• faint reflection of light upon the water in the dark

expression / godan ~る verb:

• for tears to gather in one's eyes; for tears to well up in one's eyes

expression:

• in beautiful patterns

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

adverb:

• in plenty; fully

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take part in a conference

noun / ~する noun:

• dying in miserable circumstances

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put (a person) in a fix