noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• Negaprion (genus of requiem sharks in the family Carcharhinidae containing the two extant species of lemon sharks)

noun:

• doing something for the first time (ever, in a season, etc.) - polite language ➜ 初【はつ】
• new item; first crop of the season

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get one's lazy butt in gear; to get off one's backside; to bestir oneself - idiom

expression:

• in the middle of something; busy with something
• in commotion as a result of something untoward happening
• currently importing or capturing data

noun:

• merchant; trader
• expert (professional) in a given trade or profession; shrewd businessman; expert
• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine ➜ 商売女・水商売

noun:

• very bad condition; awful state; terrible situation; in the shit - usu. as どつぼにはまる ➜ どつぼにはまる
• night-soil reservoir dug in a field ➜ 野壺【のつぼ】
• night-soil pot - orig. meaning
• earthenware vessel; earthen urn - obscure term

expression / adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• in the same manner as before; the same as always

adverb / ~と adverb:

• all together in a line; all together in a lump - archaism - onomatopoeia
• dressed sloppily; overdressed for the occasion

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to request; to beg; to ask
• to call; to order; to reserve
• to entrust to
• to rely on - esp. 恃む

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to eliminate
• to curtail; to save; to cut down; to economize; to economise

noun:

• kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc. - Food term

noun:

• streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies) - archaism
• being in great demand

noun:

• method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to sprain; to twist
• to dampen (enthusiasm); to discourage; to dishearten; to dispirit; to depress; to unnerve; to crush

~する verb (spec.):

• to approve; to agree; to assent; to endorse; to support; to back
• to inscribe
• to praise; to laud

noun:

• family positioned to accede to the shogunate

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

ichidan verb:

• to get close to the time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to catch the eye; to attract attention

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to pass away; to join the majority

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have the blues; to be depressed

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to fight to the last (death)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to suit the convenience of; to accommodate