expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to do something stupid; to do something pointless; to hit a muddy rice field with a stick [literal] - obscure term - idiom

expression:

• anybody can look good with the right clothes; clothes make the man; fine feathers make fine birds; clothes on a packhorse driver [literal] - proverb

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs ➜ 切り金
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds) ➜ 切り金

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be choked up; to be crushed (emotionally); to be overcome (with emotion); to be shocked; to be horrified

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pick out (with the fingers); to pull out
• to throw out (e.g. of a bar); to drag out; to chuck out

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to bring up; to come out with
• to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose

noun:

• tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting
• tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin - abbreviation ➜ 天目茶碗

noun:

• swallowing a great amount of tea or medicine
• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year - abbreviation ➜ 大服茶

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• small dining table (usu. for a single person); serving tray (with legs)
• meal; food; serving ➜ 御膳

counter:

• counter for bowlfuls of rice; counter for pairs of chopsticks

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take care of - archaism
• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with - archaism ➜ 持て余す

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be befuddled (with drink); to be intoxicated
• to be infatuated; to be entranced; to be carried away

expression / ~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to treat someone with contempt; to look down on someone; to treat someone disparagingly; to downplay

expression / ~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to scoff

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pour oil on (something); to anoint with oil ➜ 火に油を注ぐ【ひにあぶらをそそぐ】
• to turn up; to add fuel (e.g. to a dispute); to rev up; to encourage

noun:

• tattoo (esp. a tattoo of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword); person with a tattoo ➜ 倶利迦羅

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

noun:

• bench used by kabuki actors during performance ［合い引き・合引き］
• for enemies and allies to pull back their troops at the same time
• responding to enemy arrow fire with arrow fire

expression:

• to be a quick worker - idiom ➜ 手の早い
• to be fast in forming relationships with women - idiom
• to be quick to resort to violence - idiom

noun:

• rewarding good and punishing evil; novel or drama with a rewarding-good-and-punishing-evil theme; moral purpose; morality play - four character idiom

noun:

• shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

noun / ~する noun:

• branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
• leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け

noun:

• separate house - archaism

~の noun / noun:

• speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)

noun:

• marbling (of beef) ➜ 霜降り肉
• (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water - abbreviation ➜ 霜降り作り
• formation of frost - orig. meaning