expression:

• know your enemy, know thyself, and you shall not fear a hundred battles - proverb

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to return a favor (favour); to repay

noun:

• a series of paperbacks published since 1964 by Kodansha

noun / ~する noun:

• partial payment of a debt; reduction of a debt

expression:

• life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient - proverb ➜ 浮世

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to feel pain ➜ 痛い目・目にあう【めにあう】

noun / ~する noun:

• (apostatizing through) trampling on a fumi-e; trampling on a tablet bearing Christian images ➜ 踏み絵

noun:

• allegiance test; loyalty test ➜ 踏み絵

adverb:

• for a moment; even as a joke; even in the slightest degree

expression:

• as a matter of fact; really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly; perfectly ➜ 全く【まったく】

noun:

• sludge from sharpening a sword, etc. on a grindstone

noun:

• inking the outlines of a picture

noun:

• bottle of whiskey (whisky) that a bar customer buys, writes his name on, keeps on a shelf at the bar, and drinks little by little on successive visits - From English "keep bottle"

noun:

• head of a sleeping person

adverb:

• with a clang; with a bang; with a crash

noun:

• booth or stall in front of a home

noun:

• short speech at a dinner - From English "table speech"

noun:

• first stools passed by a newborn baby; meconium ➜ 胎便

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to bear a grudge

noun:

• price of a flower
• fee for a geisha's companionship

noun:

• picture drawn on a folding screen ➜ 屏風

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to distract a person's attention

noun:

• beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta) ➜ 百人一首【ひゃくにんいっしゅ】

noun:

• small festival held the night before a full festival ➜ 本祭り

noun:

• large flat wooden plank shaped like a fish, struck like a gong at temple to indicate time of day - Buddhism term