expression / noun:

• beginning to learn (something) when one is old; not being too old to learn - idiom

noun:

• customer one has never met before; first-time customer

noun:

• 5th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 5th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• strong impression conveyed by one's eyes; eyes that convey a strong sense of purpose

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to grab someone by the collar; to grab someone by the lapels

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do one's best

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

noun:

• reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature ［座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰］

noun / ~する noun:

• counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり

noun:

• hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り

noun:

• tiles in one's hand - Mahjong term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to forget one's troubles by doing something enjoyable

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be talked about behind one's back

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun / ~する noun:

• buying by the box - colloquialism

noun:

• having one's workplace near one's home - four character idiom

noun:

• the home of one's parents

noun / ~する noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り

noun:

• one's child; a child one has brought into the world
• descendant - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come to one's senses
• to calm down

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out one's duties
• ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege

noun:

• territory given by one's liege; fief; fiefdom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put up one's hair

noun:

• indelible scene of one's childhood; earliest remembered scene

adverb:

• by today; before the day is over

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• one season
• one year (esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 半季

noun / ~する noun:

• completion of one's work

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to lose one's presence of mind; be flummoxed; to get flustered