noun / ~する noun:

• self-respect
• prudence; not acting rashly; restraining oneself
• taking care of oneself; being careful with one's health

noun / ~する noun:

• eating between meals; wasteful eating habits; waste of resources
• living idly; loafing one's way through life ➜ 無駄飯【むだめし】・徒食【としょく】

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural style where the main entrance is on one or both of the gabled sides ➜ 平入り

expression / noun / adjectival noun:

• real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own) - the いい is ironic

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a torch; lighting up a lamp

noun:

• person who leads a funeral procession with a torch

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

noun:

• expected date of confinement; expected delivery date (of a baby)

expression:

• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• starting with vigor but ending with no action; raising one's voice (in a call to action) and then failing to take action

adjectival noun / noun:

• liked; well-liked; favourite; favorite Antonym: 嫌い【きらい】
• in love (with); loved; romantically interested (in)

noun / adjectival noun:

• faddism; eccentricity
• the way one likes; (as) it suits one

expression / noun:

• pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace

noun:

• place containing a Buddhist image
• place containing a buddha (e.g. the pure land) ➜ 極楽・浄土
• independent workshop of Buddhist sculptors (from the Heian period onward) ➜ 造仏所

expression:

• most thrilling relationships for a man (another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife)

noun:

• Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

noun:

• Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get (e.g. the gist of something); to understand
• to turn out as one thought ➜ 我が意を得たり

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to insert (an illustration); to stencil (a pattern); to print on; to instill (thought, impression, etc.); to imprint (e.g. on one's subconscious) ➜ 刷り込み

expression / ichidan verb:

• to open the lid; to lift a lid Antonym: 蓋を閉める
• to open the lid (on); to make public - idiom
• to start (something) - idiom
• to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect); to look at the condition of something - idiom
• to open (of a theatre) - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to show one's true colors (colours); to expose one's faults; to give oneself away

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hoist one's sail when the wind is fair; to get one's time to shine - idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to use up (all one's strength, ideas, etc.); to exert oneself; to do one's best

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change way one holds something; to transfer something from one hand to the other

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / expression:

• to act on one's emotions; to be carried away by one's feelings; to get emotional Antonym: 冷静になる