expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the ayes and noes

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• notation system for the sanshin - Music term ➜ 三線【さんしん】

noun:

• in the dark

noun / ~の noun:

• meeting for the first time; first meeting

noun:

• resolution authorizing the use of force

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to try out the food at various restaurants - colloquialism ➜ 食べ歩き

noun:

• under the table; word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter

noun:

• folding bench at the front of traditional townhouses ➜ 町家【まちや】

noun:

• the eight precepts (in addition to the five precepts, prohibitions against: lying in a luxurious bed; self-decoration, song & dance; and eating after noon) - Buddhism term ➜ 五戒

noun:

• Epistle to the Romans (book of the Bible)

noun:

• sovereignty of the people

noun:

• the person heretofore mentioned; that person

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to withdraw from the presence (of the Emperor)

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• the present time; new; recent

noun:

• fish which lives close to the surface

noun:

• performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• iteration mark used to represent repetition of the previous kanji (to be read using its kun-yomi) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• the whole sky; firmament

noun:

• covering for the back of the hand and wrist

noun:

• classical form of na-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the particle "ni" with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

~の noun:

• (of luggage, etc.) able to be taken into the cabin of the aircraft; carry-on