noun / ~する noun:

• passing one's time

noun:

• residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period) ➜ 与力・同心

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to harden by beating

expression:

• for as long as one can remember

expression:

• it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions; planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight [literal] - proverb

noun:

• being popular among one's companions

noun:

• holding food over one's hand

expression:

• each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of

expression / adverb:

• as one would expect ➜ さすがに

noun:

• at one's feet

expression:

• risking one's life

noun:

• submission to one's wife

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

expression / ichidan verb:

• to shrug one's shoulders

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be separated by death

noun:

• worrying about one's master's affairs; one who so worries

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hold one's breath

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing food (esp. fish) by rinsing it with vinegar - Food term

noun:

• one's work

noun:

• applying to enter more than one school

expression / adverb:

• whether one likes it or not; inevitably; unavoidably; compulsorily; by force

noun / ~する noun:

• taking back what one just said; eating one's words; negating one's previous comment, opinion, etc.

noun:

• one's native place

noun:

• kanji in which one element suggests the meaning, the other the pronunciation