noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to chop off; to snip off; to cut off (e.g. a conversation)
• to fire (a person)

noun:

• kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times ➜ 七変化【しちへんげ】
• the seven common disguises of ninja

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to pop off; to pop out; to fly off; to shoot off; to burst open

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to remain in the morning sky (i.e. the moon and stars) ➜ 暮れ残る

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

expression / ichidan verb:

• to digress; to stray from the subject
• to miss the target; to fly wide of the mark

expression / noun:

• casting off the drudgery of everyday life and doing as one pleases; kicking back

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits

expression:

• intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself; going for wool and coming home shorn; the biter bit; the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy [literal] - idiom

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

expression:

• take the opportunity to (do something else) ➜ 事の序で

expression:

• take the opportunity to (do something else) ➜ 物の序で

godan ~む verb:

• to draw off the top liquid

godan ~す verb:

• to shave off the hair

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn the lights off

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change clothes (on someone else, e.g. child, doll); to change the wallpaper or skin (of a smart phone, etc.)

noun:

• the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology - four character idiom

noun:

• nirmanakaya (response body, form taken by a buddha according to the capabilities of those who are to be saved) - Buddhism term ➜ 三身

expression:

• losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal

noun:

• black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm, species of tang endemic to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the western Indian Ocean)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task
• to be ready; to be completed
• to be made; to be built
• to be good at; to be permitted (to do)
• to become intimate; to take up (with somebody)
• to grow; to be raised
• to become pregnant

expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes - idiom ➜ 目からウロコの落ちる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]