noun:

• festival held on January 10 in honor of Ebisu, the god of fishing and commerce ➜ 恵比寿【えびす】

expression / noun:

• more or less right; you are on the right track; getting warm ➜ いい線【いいせん】

noun:

• Shonan train; medium-distance train on the eastern Tokaido Main Line (coloured green and orange) - colloquialism

noun:

• taking turns on duty (esp. daimyo's retainers on duty in Edo)

noun / ~する noun:

• on reading; on'yomi; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji ➜ 訓読み

expression:

• please; please do for me - after te-form of a verb - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 頂戴
• hey; hold on; come on ［ちょ］ - slang - abbreviation ➜ ちょっと

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this ➜ あんな・そんな・どんな

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to urge; to encourage; to press; to prompt; to draw (attention to)
• to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken; to accelerate; to promote

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to be contrary to; to be inconsistent with; to contradict ［反する］
• to act contrary to (rules or guidelines); to violate; to transgress ［反する］
• to oppose; to rebel; to revolt

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to colour; to color; to be tinged; to brighten
• to grow lively; to become excited; to be stirred
• to waver; to show uneasiness
• to grow amorous; to getsexy

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be absent; to take a day off
• to rest; to have a break
• to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep; to turn in; to retire
• to stop doing some ongoing activity for a time; to suspend business

expression / ichidan verb:

• to die in (a foreign land); to engage in something until death comes; to do something for the rest of one's life

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take in; to bring in; to adopt (e.g. behaviour); to introduce ➜ 採り込む
• to capture (e.g. image); to import - IT term
• to win over; to please; to curry favour with; to flatter
• to defraud of; to swindle; to embezzle

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be busy; to be in confusion; to have trouble

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to keep; to preserve; to hold; to retain; to maintain; to sustain

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to last; to endure; to keep well (food); to wear well; to be durable

expression:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - opening formula of a brief letter

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting the beginning

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books - From English "head band" ➜ 花布

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

noun:

• division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods - archaism
• the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to collect; to gather; to get together; to complete (a collection)
• to arrange; to put in order; to prepare; to get ready
• to make uniform; to make even; to match

particle:

• even
• even if; even though
• because of; on the grounds that

noun:

• publicly-traded stock; stock listed on the stock exchange