expression / godan ~む verb:

• to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom

noun:

• visiting a shrine on New Year's Eve and staying there until (or returning on) New Year's Day

noun / ~する noun:

• venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on

noun:

• on-the-spot or live broadcast; running commentary; blow-by-blow report; play-by-play report

expression:

• for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad

noun:

• boiling sake or mirin (to reduce the alcohol content); boiled-down sake; boiled-down mirin

noun / ~する noun:

• official seal; verification seal; affixing a seal to an official document ［あいはん・あいばん］
• making a joint signature or seal ➜ 連判

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom

expression:

• you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason (e.g. a crying child or a violent lord); you can't fight City Hall - idiom ➜ 泣く子と地頭には勝てない【なくことじとうにはかてない】

expression:

• you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason (e.g. a crying child or a violent lord); you can't fight City Hall - proverb

pronoun:

• wise younger brother; polite reference to another's younger brother, or to one's junior

expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

noun:

• fresh Japanese sweets (usu. containing red bean paste)
• fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

noun:

• gudgeon (any fish of genus Gnathopogon or related genera)
• willow gudgeon (Gnathopogon caerulescens) ➜ 本諸子
• longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus) ➜ 九絵

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit
• to expose
• to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to put against; to hold on; to hold against
• to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class)
• to guess (an answer)
• to make a hit (e.g. in a lottery)

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓

lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to exit; to go out; to come out; to get out - archaism Antonym: 入る【はいる】
• to leave (on a journey); to depart; to start out; to set out - archaism
• to move forward - archaism
• to come to; to get to; to lead to; to reach - archaism
• to appear; to come out; to emerge; to surface; to come forth; to turn up; to be found; to be detected; to be discovered; to be exposed; to show; to be exhibited; to be on display - archaism
• to appear (in print); to be published; to be announced; to be issued; to be listed; to come out - archaism
• to attend; to participate; to take part; to enter (an event); to play in; to perform - archaism
• to be stated; to be expressed; to come up; to be brought up; to be raised - archaism
• to sell - archaism
• to exceed; to go over - archaism
• to stick out; to protrude - archaism
• to break out; to occur; to start; to originate - archaism
• to be produced - archaism
• to come from; to be derived from - archaism
• to be given; to get; to receive; to be offered; to be provided; to be presented; to be submitted; to be handed in; to be turned in; to be paid - archaism
• to answer (phone, door, etc.); to get - archaism
• to assume (an attitude); to act; to behave - archaism
• to pick up (speed, etc.); to gain - archaism
• to flow (e.g. tears); to run; to bleed - archaism
• to graduate - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port
• opening a port to foreign vessels or trade

noun:

• new rice field; newly developed rice field
• wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

ichidan verb:

• (for a fruit) to go bad and lose its shape from being overripe or damaged
• to feel listless; to be dull; to be lazy; to look bored

noun:

• thick silk cloth; coarse silk cloth; silk cloth made from coarse fibers (futoito, tamaito or noshiito) ➜ 太糸・玉糸・熨斗糸