expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• penitence by chanting sutras; confession (of sins); Tendai ritual of chanting Lotus Sutra or to Kanzeon, Amida, or Kichijoten for forgiveness of sins performed unknowingly - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• penitence sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• guidebook to penitence - Buddhism term

expression:

• as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
• apart from... (used to change the topic)
• even (e.g. "not even a single person") - before a negative form
• thinking that...; trying to... - after a volitional form ➜ とする

noun:

• cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to smash; to crush; to flatten
• to shut down; to put out of business; to force (a company) to close up shop
• to wreck; to break; to block; to thwart
• to butcher; to slaughter; to kill (livestock, for food)
• to kill (time); to while away (the time)
• to waste (e.g. talents)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be meant for each other (of a man and woman); to be connected through fate; to be destined to marry (each other); to be tied by the red string (of fate) [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤い糸

noun:

• tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea
• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

noun:

• good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense - four character idiom

noun:

• straight-from-the-pot udon; udon noodles pulled straight from the pot and served in the hot water used for boiling (traditionally without being soaked in cold water), eaten by dipping in sauce - Food term ➜ うどん

noun:

• several men, several minds; everyone has his own ideas and tastes; everyone has his own interests and ideas; different strokes for different folks - colloquialism - four character 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

noun / ~の noun:

• taking care of one's responsibilities by oneself; one's own efforts; one's own expense
• going into business for oneself (selling one's own products); entrepreneur of such a business

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:

• bill; bill of sale; payment invoice
• tab (for later payment); credit
• contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone - usually written using kana alone
• sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki - usually written using kana alone
• letter - archaism
• reason; motive; pretext - archaism
• one's fortune; one's luck - archaism

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

noun:

• reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature ［座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰］

noun / ~する noun:

• counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり

noun:

• hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

noun:

• flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness
• animal from popular folklore with a white fluffy down made from dandelions and a rabbit's tail resembling a fluffy hairball

expression:

• home is wherever one lays one's hat; you can make your living anywhere in this world; there's room for us all in the world; wherever there are humans, there are burial places [literal]

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be lifted; to be raised; to rise; to go up
• to happen suddenly; to occur; to come up; to turn up
• to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be renewed; to change ［改まる］
• to be improved; to be reformed; to be revised; to be corrected ［改まる］
• to stand on ceremony; to be formal ［改まる］
• to take a turn for the worse (of an illness); to take a serious turn

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to restrict; to limit; to confine

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be confined to
• to be best (for); to be the best plan; to be the only way (to) - as ...は...に限る

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be the first to speak; to break the silence - idiom
• to open something for the first time; to broach (e.g. a cask); to break a seal; to break open

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• one-coin (i.e. able to be paid for with only one coin, esp. a 500-yen coin, sometimes a 100-yen coin); costing 500 yen; costing 100 yen

noun:

• official size of a tatami mat for measuring room size (esp. a Kyoto-size tatami mat) ➜ 京間
• basic rhythm (in traditional Japanese music) - Music term
• room (in a brothel) of a prostitute of the highest rank - archaism