noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to put into written form; to communicate or express by writing; to chronicle

expression:

• in unison; as one; united

expression:

• year after year; as the years go by; with each passing year

adverb:

• involuntarily; reluctantly; against one's inclination; against one's will; as a matter of unpleasant necessity; despite oneself

noun / ~する noun:

• promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language ➜ 約束

noun / ~の noun:

• something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

noun / ~する noun:

• leave-taking; offering one's resignation; farewell visit

expression / noun:

• everywhere; everywhere one goes; wherever one goes

noun / adverb:

• hourly; from hour to hour; moment by moment; momently; from one minute to the next; with each passing moment - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb

expression:

• desperately; to the full extent of one's power; with all of one's ability

expression / noun:

• wisdom of age; sagacity of one's years; old-man's wisdom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (contents)
• to tell frankly; to confess

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dressing oneself up to look young; altering one's appearance to look young; dressing younger than one's age

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を守る

expression:

• natural state; being unspoilt by human touch; willows are green, flowers are crimson [literal] - from a quote by Su Shi - idiom
• spring is beautiful - proverb
• things are different by nature; all things have their characteristics - proverb

expression / adjective:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) - idiom
• having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear

noun:

• you are what you eat; slogan encouraging consumption of local seasonal foods for one's health; indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land) [literal]

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

expression:

• every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop [literal] - proverb ➜ 餠

lower nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to give; to let one have; to do for one - archaism ➜ 呉れる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to devote oneself wholeheartedly to; to sacrifice one's health for; to risk one's life

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を破る

noun:

• passage in a discourse; one section; one scene