noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• drumming in the streets to announce a tournament - Sumo term
• announcing an event by walking around in the streets beating a drum; drum used to announce an event by walking around in the streets

noun:

• criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese); legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models ➜ 律・令【りょう】

noun:

• whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha; urna

expression:

• good advice is harsh to the ears; honest advice is often unpleasant to the ears - four character idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to see eye to eye; to be on the same wavelength; to talk the same language

noun:

• skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
• child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold)
• to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones
• to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)

noun:

• large jewel; string of jewels - archaism
• Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 勾玉・三種の神器

expression:

• each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; when there are ministries, there is no country [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Heike biwa; Heike lute; biwa with 4 strings and 5 frets, esp. for accompanying the Heike Monogatari ➜ 琵琶
• chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to remove one's shirt thus revealing the skin; to remove the upper part of one's garments
• to work with great effort ➜ 片肌脱ぐ・一肌脱ぐ

noun:

• day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over ➜ 裏返す
• to look at it from another perspective - usu. as 裏を返せば
• to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make the sign of the cross; to bless oneself; to cross oneself

ichidan verb:

• to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close

expression / noun:

• ball of a finger; finger cushion; pulp of the finger; pad of the finger

noun:

• college of the arts; university of the arts; art university

noun:

• college of the arts; university of the arts; art university - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• victimized by the unlucky year; victimised by the unlucky year

noun:

• sound of the autumn wind; sound of the fall wind

noun:

• Orders of the Precious Crown; Orders of the Sacred Crown

noun:

• Records of the Three Kingdoms; Annals of the Three Kingdoms ➜ 三国【さんごく】