noun:

• being possessed (by a spirit); possessed person
• child or doll used as a vessel for a spirit invoked by a shaman or miko ➜ 憑坐【よりまし】

expression:

• something very unexpected; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse comes from a gourd [literal]

expression:

• there is no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted; squeezing your buttocks after you have farted [literal] - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• horse riding; horseback riding; horseback rider

noun:

• coach and four; four horse coach

noun / ~する noun:

• working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• moment by moment; hour by hour

expression:

• moment by moment; hour by hour

noun:

• point by point; article by article

noun:

• letter by letter; character by character - four character idiom

expression:

• for money; just for money; by means of money; by force of money

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to grab someone by the collar; to grab someone by the lapels

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn; to rotate; to gyrate
• to circulate; to send around
• to surround
• to put something to a new use (e.g. leftovers)

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• ... around (e.g. to chase someone around) - after the -masu stem of a verb
• to dial (e.g. telephone number)

godan ~す verb:

• to invest
• to gang-rape ➜ 輪姦す

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to happen to pass by; to pass by ➜ 通り掛かる【とおりかかる】

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

expression:

• one cannot live solely by oneself; one cannot accomplish anything solely by oneself; cannot clap with just one hand [literal] - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• number one; first; first place

adverb:

• best; most

noun:

• game; round; bout

adverb:

• as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively ➜ 試しに

noun:

• song (e.g. in noh); piece

noun:

• traditional horse-racing; originally two horses head-to-head or ten at a time, esp. May 5th event at Kamigamo shrine

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to name; to call by name; to mention by name

adverb / ~と adverb:

• squeezing something tightly; sound made by someone (or something) being squeezed - onomatopoeia
• criticizing someone severely; sound made by someone being criticized

noun:

• hug - colloquialism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to have someone hold; to let someone have; to give
• to have someone carry; to send with someone
• to keep; to preserve
• to have someone pay (e.g. the bill); to burden someone with
• to raise someone's hopes