expression / ichidan verb:

• to be crazy about; to be infatuated with; to be obsessively devoted to

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop into; to slip into; to let fall into; to slide (something) down

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be hard to deal with; to be sinister-looking; to be idiosyncratic

expression / ~の noun:

• (on the) net; (on the) Internet; (on the) Web

noun / ~する noun:

• payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold
• inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become entangled; to become complicated; to get mixed up; to screw up; to get caught up in

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

expression:

• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• the 48 basic techniques - four character idiom - Sumo term
• every trick in the book
• the 48 basic sexual positions - colloquialism

noun:

• two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State & the Dept. of Worship) ➜ 律令制

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing (or dropping) off, then later picking up or going to meet (the same person)

noun / ~する noun:

• going from door to door greeting relatives and friends
• complimentary visit for the New Year

noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

noun:

• iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• brimming with fighting spirit; being strong in the will to fight; burning with combativeness - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

noun:

• scooter with a compartment under the seat to hold a helmet - From English "(hel)met in" ➜ メット

noun:

• Ksitigarbha (jizo) who listens to people's complaints (statue at the Keihou Temple at Nagoya)

noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

expression:

• not exactly correct, but pretty close to it; not far off the mark

noun:

• V-sign; hand gesture similar to the peace sign, representing victory or happiness