expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start the debate; to get the ball rolling; to fire the first shot (fig. only); to start a conversation

noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way

expression:

• from the start; from the beginning; from the outset

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971); Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands

expression:

• the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb

noun:

• the other side of a river
• the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live - sensitive

noun:

• ability to take proper steps to meet the situation; ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment - four character idiom

noun:

• Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism - Buddhism term ➜ 奈落【ならく】

noun / ~する noun:

• entry (in a form, register, diary, etc.); filling in; filling out

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out

noun / ~する noun:

• drying up; running dry
• running out; being exhausted; being drained

godan ~る verb:

• to exclude; to leave out (of conversations, etc.); to send to Coventry

godan ~す verb:

• to begin to overflow; to start overflowing; to pour out

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to set out (on a journey); to start (a task)

noun:

• geta supports made out of magnolia wood; geta with these supports

noun:

• language spoken by the Emishi ➜ 蝦夷【えぞ】
• languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) ➜ 南蛮【なんばん】
• foreign language

noun:

• small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival) ➜ 宵宮

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty
• to be hungry ➜ お腹が空く

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to deny; to contradict
• to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to examine closely; to check up on; to ferret out
• to wash carefully

noun / ~の noun:

• out-of-body experience; astral projection; sensation of physically leaving your body - four character idiom

noun:

• increasing daily; increasing day by day
• foodstuffs left out for many days ➜ 日増し物