expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians) - four character idiom

adverb:

• swishing through the air; whirling quickly; moving quickly - onomatopoeia ➜ ビュッ

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on ➜ 主眼

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun:

• the advertising industry

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways people are brought together; there is no telling how people are brought together ➜ 縁は異なもの味なもの

noun:

• the car ahead; front wheel

expression:

• the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction - Buddhism term

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow ➜ 巫女【みこ】・口寄せ

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to raise the reputation of one's family; to found a house

noun:

• coarse broken tea leaves and buds generated during the sifting process

expression:

• Be careful not to invite the least suspicion; Leave no room for scandal - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• emperor's return to the imperial palace Antonym: 出御

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to mount the platform

noun:

• the seniority system

adverb:

• all the more

expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes - idiom ➜ 目からウロコの落ちる

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be on the right track; to be close enough - colloquialism ➜ いい線を行く

noun:

• image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant) - Buddhism term ➜ 普賢菩薩

noun / ~する noun:

• reporting to the emperor ➜ 奏上

noun:

• the great evil god ➜ 禍津日神