expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw water (e.g. from a river); to lead water to (e.g. a field, a pond); to supply water to; to irrigate

noun:

• the seven spring flowers - abbreviation ➜ 春の七草
• the seven fall flowers; the seven autumn flowers - abbreviation ➜ 秋の七草
• the seventh of January; Festival of Seven Herbs - abbreviation ➜ 七草の節句

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to profit at someone else's expense; to rob Peter to pay Paul; to take risks with other people's money - idiom ➜ 他人のふんどしで相撲を取る【たにんのふんどしですもうをとる】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to build up one's strength; to get stronger
• to give (someone) strength; to cheer (someone) up; to encourage (someone)

noun:

• first storm of spring; strong winds during the change from winter to spring

noun / ~する noun:

• shoulder massage (performed by tapotement)
• tap on the shoulder (request to resign)

noun:

• back to back
• discord; feud
• opposite sides of the same coin

noun:

• stockpile rice (kept by the government to use as emergency provisions); reserved rice

noun:

• warfare in which soldiers fling themselves at the enemy; hand-to hand combat

noun / ~する noun:

• burial (disposal of a body) by exposure to the elements; aerial sepulture (burial)

noun:

• grand champion filling the rank of champion to keep their number at 2 - Sumo term

expression:

• quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake ➜ ツーカー

particle:

• a sort of thing like; used after a phrase to modify the following noun

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

expression:

• it is difficult to say which of the two is better

noun:

• tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha) - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world

noun:

• half-assed gyaru; young woman who partially adheres to the gyaru fashion trend - from 中途半端 and ギャル - abbreviation - slang ➜ ギャル

noun:

• attaching (of seaweed or seed oysters) to nets for the purpose of cultivation

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun / ~する noun:

• involving the audience (by talking to them, bringing them on stage, etc.)

expression / ~よい adjective:

• knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

adjective:

• bad; poor; inferior
• evil; sinful
• unprofitable; unbeneficial
• at fault; to blame; in the wrong
• sorry

suffix:

• Lord; Sir ［きょう］ - honorific language

noun:

• state minister (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

pronoun:

• you (in reference to someone of lower status) ［けい］ - archaism - male language - honorific language