noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• living only for one's work; a life with no other interest than one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• exceeding (overstepping) one's powers (competence, authority); abuse of one's legal authority; acting ultra vires - four character idiom

expression:

• once a beggar, always a beggar; if one begs for three days, one cannot stop [literal] - proverb

expression:

• what one likes, one will do well; you become good at what you like doing - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• spending time with one's family on one's day off work; family duty - colloquialism

noun:

• child born to one's legal wife (as opposed to one's concubine, etc.) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• writing down what one hears; account of what one hears

noun:

• eyes and ears; seeing and hearing
• one's attention; one's interest

noun:

• inability to live up to one's rank; out of one's league

expression / ichidan verb:

• to chase one's gloom away; to free one's thoughts from melancholy - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• right to speak; offering one's opinion to one's superior; proposal

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to throw one's chest out; to hold one's head high

noun:

• as freely as one pleases; at will; to one's heart's content - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to talk through one's hat; to blow one's own horn - idiom

expression:

• result of one's blood, sweat, and tears; fruits of one's labour

noun:

• abdomen; belly; stomach
• womb ➜ 胎【はら】
• one's mind; one's real intentions; one's true motive
• courage; nerve; willpower
• generosity; magnanimity
• feelings; emotions
• wide middle part; bulging part
• inside; interior; inner part
• anti-node - Physics term

suffix / counter:

• counter for hard roe
• counter for containers with bulging middles (pots, vases, etc.)

expression:

• persevering through something difficult makes one stronger; whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger; slow but steady wins the race - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to boil; to seethe
• to roil (e.g. waterfall, torrent); to foam; to cascade down
• to well up (of emotions); to overflow (e.g. fighting spirit); to seethe (esp. blood)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• one's heart's desire; one's dearest wish

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

noun:

• eggs; egg; spawn; roe ［卵］
• hen egg
• (an expert) in the making ［卵］
• beginning; origin; infancy ［卵］

noun:

• beach; seashore
• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 揚げ浜
• Yokohama - abbreviation ➜ 横浜
• riverbank; riverside - archaism - Ōsaka dialect

expression / conjunction:

• in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of

suffix:

• in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of
• attached or stretched on