expression:

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

noun:

• battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position - Sumo term

expression:

• talk is cheap; it's easier to say than to do; building Osaka Castle by talking [literal] - proverb

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle
• dragonfly (esp. a large one)

godan ~む verb:

• to carry on one's back
• to burden oneself (e.g. with debts, responsibilities, etc.)

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】

noun:

• pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate - colloquialism

noun:

• Okinawa (prefecture); region comprising most of Japan's southwestern archipelago (esp. Okinawa Island) ➜ 琉球
• Okinawa (city)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to nod; to bow one's head in assent; to agree

noun:

• (being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal - four character idiom

noun:

• dry cough; hacking cough
• intentional cough (i.e. to get someone's attention) - esp. 空咳

godan ~る verb:

• to cut by rubbing; to wear out; to spend all (one's money)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be beside oneself; to lose one's head; to go mad with something

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to confess (one's love); to propose (marriage); to ask out (on a date) - from 告白する - slang ➜ 告白

expression / ichidan verb:

• to roll around laughing; to fold up; to hold one's sides with laughter

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to feel relieved; to forget about one's troubles; to settle into peace of mind - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose one's means of livelihood; to become unable to earn a living

noun:

• Heath monitor (Varanus rosenbergi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in Australia); Rosenberg's monitor

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to bow (of one's back, e.g. due to age); to bend

noun:

• back-right corner of rear stage (area behind main noh stage); stage attendant's spot [literal] ➜ 後見