expression:

• regardless of right or wrong; regardless of merit; both good and bad ➜ 良くも悪くも

noun:

• free price; price determined by the seller, not the distributor or government

noun:

• allocation of replotted land; government acquisition of land by substitution or compensation

noun / ~する noun:

• life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death

noun:

• waste of labor or energy; waste of labour; vain effort

noun:

• polishing one's sword; "improving one's talents or knowledge" [figurative] - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• laboring in vain or for no result; labouring in vain

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be enigmatic or puzzling; to be wrapped in mystery

noun:

• good luck charm; something that encourages or invites good luck

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master
• to order (one's life)
• to repair (a fault one has committed)

noun:

• someone haughty and boastful at home but meek and reserved outside; being a lion at home and a mouse abroad

expression:

• enjoying a long life is a matter for congratulation; cranes live for 1000 years, turtles live for 10,000 years [literal] - proverb

noun:

• eldest son - archaism ➜ 長男
• older brother; older sister - archaism
• older person - archaism
• head of a clan; head of a region - archaism ➜ 氏上
• skilled craftsman - archaism

lower nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master - archaism
• to order (one's life) - archaism
• to repair (a fault one has committed) - archaism

noun:

• digital perm; hot perm; perm using hot rods regulated by a machine with a digital display

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.); to slice (off); to lop (off); to cut (off)

noun:

• subject (of a medical experiment, etc.); test subject; trial subject; testee ［被験者］
• examinee (of a full-body scan, etc.)

noun:

• celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth)
• gift at the birth of a child; baby gift

noun:

• shaved head; person with a shaved head - From English "skinhead"
• skinhead; shaved-headed member of a subculture often associated with Neo-nazism

godan ~つ verb:

• to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the marketplace [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase
• to buy up (all of something)

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a spectacular photograph (often of the female form); taking a photo at just the right moment - colloquialism

noun:

• powerful photograph; intense photograph