adverb:

• closely; intimately ➜ 親しい【したしい】
• personally; in person - referring to someone of higher status
• directly (experience); at first-hand

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop in the middle of a sentence

noun:

• fete in honor of Ebisu (honour)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to attack the enemy in his unguarded moment

expression / ichidan verb:

• to arrange (one's) shoes (e.g. in a genkan) ➜ 玄関【げんかん】

expression / adverb:

• incorrigibly; doggedly; in spite of one's negative experiences ➜ 性懲りもない【しょうこりもない】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to shut oneself up in one's study

noun:

• find odd moments of leisure in one's busy life

noun:

• elixir of life (prepared from cinnabar in ancient China)

noun:

• period of time in which to recharge one's batteries

noun:

• (announcement over) the public address system (e.g. in stadium)

noun:

• competition (rivalry) to first (e.g. rider in a charge)

noun:

• (season's) record holder in (for) the most strike-outs

noun:

• dish of raw fish and vegetables seasoned in vinegar - Food term

noun:

• constriction; narrow part (in middle)
• waist (esp. of a woman) ➜ 胴のくびれ

expression:

• one of these days; before very long; in the near future

noun:

• Aesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)

adverb:

• suddenly and in a loud voice (e.g. sobbing) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• air or vapour in the soil (vapor)
• electrical earth; ground

noun:

• sacred items buried in the ring during its ritual purification - Sumo term

noun:

• wrestler's belt used in a bout - Sumo term

noun:

• maelstrom; the state of affairs being in great turmoil - four character idiom

expression:

• people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood - four character idiom

noun:

• (the two sides) being evenly-matched in influence or power - four character idiom

noun:

• the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren) - honorific language