godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be moreish; to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after
• to have lingering effects

expression:

• to (an extent); up to; so far as; even - more emphatic than まで ➜ 迄【まで】
• doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ... - usu. as 〜までもない
• even if ... - usu. as 〜ないまでも

godan ~る verb:

• to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve - slang
• (in an online multiplayer game) to camp - slang

noun:

• former rank in the Japanese army and navy, equiv. to private first-class, lance corporal, etc. ➜ 士長

noun:

• successive generations
• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - abbreviation ➜ 譜代大名

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• completely helpless; unable even to drive away the flies on one's own head - idiom

noun:

• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

noun:

• distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage

noun:

• petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China) ➜ 稗史

noun:

• rotating stage machinery, which rolls backwards 90 degrees to reveal the next scene

noun:

• BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries

noun:

• dusky batfish (Platax pinnatus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)

noun:

• constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions") - obscure term ➜ 星宿【せいしゅく】

noun:

• unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin) - archaism ➜ 陰陽道・天一神・方違え

noun:

• Osaka Incident; plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising, 1885

noun:

• announcement calling for someone (e.g. "would XX please come to the ticket counter")

noun:

• paper put between newly completed prints to prevent the ink from smudging; interleaf; slip sheet

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• singularity (climate); day in the calendar when a particular weather phenomenon is statistically likely to occur

noun:

• former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period) ➜ バテレン

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天