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:

• model; dummy; mock-up
• model (profession); fashion model
• model (of a car, etc.); make; version
• model; example; template; standard
• model (in model theory); theory
• person a fictional character was modeled on; inspiration

noun:

• young people who behave in a rowdy fashion (e.g. in a pub); young people who cheer and drink loudly

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to distance oneself (from); to keep (something or someone) at a distance; to maintain a distance (from)

noun:

• being kept standing (without doing anything); remaining on one's feet
• beggar; tramp
• prostitute; streetwalker
• tout (for a hostess bar)
• street drug pusher
• day laborer standing and waiting for a job.

noun:

• house; detached house; single house
• isolated house; house in isolated location
• building resembling a house, occupied by a single business (e.g. restaurant)

noun:

• age of a young lady who is at the peak of her (sexual) attractiveness; marriable age (of a young lady); sweet sixteen

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to insert
• to interrupt; to slip in a word
• to harbor (e.g. doubts); to harbour; to entertain (e.g. a theory)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise one's hand or hands - usu. 手を挙げる
• to surrender - usu. 手を上げる
• to raise a hand to someone (as a threat to strike) - usu. 手を上げる
• to improve - usu. 手を上げる ➜ 腕を上げる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be summoned (i.e. of a geisha, by a customer)
• to be offered (the job of ...); to be invited (to do ...) - usu. as 〜の口が掛かる

godan ~る verb:

• to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back

noun:

• baking foods in a covered pan; foods baked in a covered pan

expression:

• despite having waited a long time; in spite of having waited a long time

noun:

• end (of a stick, rod, pole, etc.)
• end of a palanquin carrying pole
• palanquin bearer

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution

noun:

• gondola (boat) - From Italian
• gondola (of a hot-air balloon, airship, etc.); basket; cabin (of a cable car, ski lift, etc.); car (of an elevator)

godan ~す verb:

• to drive mad; to make insane
• to cause a malfunction; to put out of order; to throw out of kilter
• to derail (a plan, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to frustrate (e.g. someone's plans); to give someone a surprise; to give someone a blow; to scare the hell out of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bother; to embarrass; to harass; to give someone a hard time; to give someone a lot of trouble

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cool (e.g. from a high temperature to room temperature); to let cool
• to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoil

noun:

• gods and men ［しんじん］
• godlike person; person as powerful as a god; person as refined as a god ［しんじん］
• low-ranking Shinto priest - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a fingernail (or toenail) to the quick; cutting a nail too close

noun:

• deep-set nail; deep-set part of nail

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to engage in a bloody feud; to have a family quarrel; to quarrel with one's own flesh and blood; to wash blood for blood [literal] - idiom

expression:

• tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb