expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await

noun:

• side of a body

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• winning hand consisting of four kongs and a pair - Mahjong term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• washing a corpse for burial

noun:

• killing a younger brother; fratricide

expression / ichidan verb:

• to open a book

expression / noun:

• gathering to remember a dead person; memorial meeting

noun:

• having good knowledge of a certain matter; person who has good knowledge of a certain matter; informed source ➜ 通

noun:

• snow with a frozen crust on top; crusted snow

noun:

• right now

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to send or direct a person to

noun:

• food packed in a wooden box

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• top crease of a sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)
• sleeve cap (of Western clothing)

noun:

• a great authority - abbreviation ➜ 泰山北斗

noun:

• (adopting) a popular line; (taking) a populist line - four character idiom

noun:

• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

noun:

• a certain somebody; you-know-who - humorous term ➜ 誰か

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to submit (a plan) to a committee for deliberation

noun:

• log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

noun:

• beginning of a dispute

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of a gate
• (Edo-period) house confinement