expression:

• to whom it may concern; to the involved parties; to all persons concerned - honorific language

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance ➜ 捗【はか】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to aim for laughs; to play to the crowd

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down
• to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

noun:

• official post; regular post; permanent office
• principal post (as opposed to secondary post)

pronoun:

• I (of someone in government or the civil service)

adverbial noun / noun:

• to the end of time; to the crack of doom; for ever and ever

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to lay the foundation for (e.g. a theory); to lay the basis for

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it; to dig your own grave - idiom

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

noun:

• festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language

noun:

• toe-in (alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exclude; to close the door to

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become entangled; to become complicated; to get mixed up; to screw up; to get caught up in

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to blame; to reproach; to censure; to rebuke; to reprove; to find fault; to take to task; to criticize; to criticise
• to question (a suspect); to challenge

ichidan verb:

• to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated; to get inflamed

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to prick (one's conscience) ➜ 気が咎める

noun:

• formal, usually black, kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to lie down (in bed); to take to one's bed - obscure term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in pain (referring to others); to complain of pain ➜ 痛い・がる