noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

expression:

• following (a person to a place)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to grant a person a moment

noun:

• scatterbrain; absent-minded person; careless person; thoughtless person
• rash person; hasty person

noun / ~する noun:

• delivery; grant; handing (a ticket) to (a person)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exorcise a fox spirit (from a person)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask a question of (a person)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold a person back; to restrain; to catch in one's arms

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock (a person) off his feet; to hit (something) hard; to send (someone) flying

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where one person beats a fruit tree (usu. persimmon tree) with a pole while threatening to cut it down if it does not provide a plentiful harvest, with another person responding "I will, I will" for the tree ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

expression / ichidan verb:

• to determine whether something is right or wrong; to make something clear; to settle a matter - colloquialism

expression / adverb:

• after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably

expression:

• Where there is a will, there is a way

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be different from what was previously said; to be different from what was promised

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持する

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to bring to (someone's attention)
• to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to play on (one's sympathies) ➜ 理性に訴える
• to complain
• to sue (a person); to take someone to court
• to resort to (e.g. arms, violence) ➜ 暴力に訴える

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• for something unexpected to happen (to someone or something one is close to) - idiom

expression:

• (deciding to do something) abruptly; at the turn of a dime - usu. as 足元から鳥が立つように - idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• auscultation; listening to a person's chest with a stethoscope - Medicine term

expression:

• discouraged person; (like a) sheep being led to a slaughterhouse

noun:

• blow to a vital point of a person's body - Martial Arts term ➜ 当て身【あてみ】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to harm; to hurt; to injure; to wreck

auxiliary verb:

• to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

noun:

• word, phrase, or image that is perceived as showing or suggesting discrimination or prejudice against a person or group of people

godan ~る verb:

• to act like a know-it-all; to pretend you know everything; to fancy one is an authority ➜ 通がる