ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be anxious or concerned about; to ponder (anxiously); to fear ［案じる］ ➜ 案ずる
• to investigate; to consider; to plan ➜ 案ずる・一計を案じる
• to pat; to rub; to take a sword in one's hand ［按じる］

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

• to be anxious or concerned about; to ponder (anxiously); to fear ［案ずる］ ➜ 案じる
• to investigate; to consider; to plan ➜ 案じる
• to pat; to rub; to take a sword in one's hand ［按ずる］

noun / ~する noun:

• official seal; verification seal; affixing a seal to an official document ［あいはん・あいばん］
• making a joint signature or seal ➜ 連判

expression:

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

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make the smart move (after taking in the situation, etc.) ➜ 気が利く
• to do the tactful or helpful thing (after considering someone's feelings) ➜ 気が利く

noun:

• Odontaspididae; family of four species in two genera of lamniform sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks or ragged tooth sharks

noun:

• diligence in studying (e.g. continuing to study even in such poor light as offered by a firefly or that reflected by snow); diligent study

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom

suffix noun:

• -like; pseudo-; mock ...; imitation ...; in the style of ...

noun:

• comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts)
• criticism; censure - archaism

expression:

• you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason (e.g. a crying child or a violent lord); you can't fight City Hall - idiom ➜ 泣く子と地頭には勝てない【なくことじとうにはかてない】

expression:

• you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason (e.g. a crying child or a violent lord); you can't fight City Hall - proverb

pronoun:

• wise younger brother; polite reference to another's younger brother, or to one's junior

noun / adjectival noun:

• magnanimous in one's attitude of mind; grand in one's idea or mind-set - four character idiom

expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

noun:

• fresh Japanese sweets (usu. containing red bean paste)
• fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

noun:

• gudgeon (any fish of genus Gnathopogon or related genera)
• willow gudgeon (Gnathopogon caerulescens) ➜ 本諸子
• longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus) ➜ 九絵

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port
• opening a port to foreign vessels or trade

noun:

• new rice field; newly developed rice field
• wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

ichidan verb:

• (for a fruit) to go bad and lose its shape from being overripe or damaged
• to feel listless; to be dull; to be lazy; to look bored