expression / godan ~く verb:

• to figure out; to get an idea

~の noun / adverb:

• in tatters; in pieces; wiped out

expression:

• don't put the trivial ahead of the important; don't sweat the small stuff; don't bother with the details (before embarking on a great enterprise) - proverb
• read the fine print; be careful of the small things (before embarking on a great enterprise) - proverb

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to refuse; to reject; to dismiss; to turn down; to decline
• to inform; to give notice; to tell in advance
• to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to decrease; to be reduced; to grow less; to abate

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to reduce; to lessen; to cut down; to mitigate; to diminish
• to subtract; to deduct; to take off

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to decrease; to be reduced; to grow less; to abate

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to reduce; to lessen; to cut down; to mitigate; to diminish
• to subtract; to deduct; to take off

noun / ~する noun:

• failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
• falling short of the standard; not making the grade

noun / ~する noun:

• varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages) - abbreviation ➜ 印地打ち

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to sink; to go under; to submerge
• to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend
• to feel depressed

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard; to put back (a clock)

noun:

• performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shorten; to cut short; to trim
• to cut down on; to reduce; to economize; to economise

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop into; to slip into; to let fall into; to slide (something) down

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to dry up (spring, pond, etc.); to run out

adjectival noun:

• all-out; general; over-all; complete; extensive; full-scale

noun:

• way out; means to escape; escape route

adjective:

• unlike; unbecoming; unworthy of; out of keeping with