noun:

• person in charge of music (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 立方【たちかた】
• person singing ballads (in noh)
• coast (esp. as seen from the water); shore
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area - archaism

noun:

• chinaberry; Japanese bead tree (Melia azedarach) - archaism ➜ 栴檀【せんだん】
• light purple outside, green inside; purple outside, light purple inside; type of garment layering color scheme, worn in April and May

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom

noun:

• frog (esp. the wrinkled frog or Asian grass frog); toad (esp. the Japanese toad) - colloquialism

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

noun:

• Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; ivy morning glory
• any funnel shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); funnel-shaped urinal

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have both the looks and the substance; to be a compassionate and just person; to be interesting and instructive - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the baton (e.g. in a relay race)
• to pass the baton; to hand on the torch - idiom

noun:

• cup of sake used to drink to the establishment of a partnership, commitment to marriage, etc.; nuptial cup of sake

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's wits about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary of trickery - idiom ➜ 眉唾物【まゆつばもの】

expression:

• widowers are untidy; a man alone soon goes to seed; a man goes to pieces without a woman to look after him - proverb

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be descended from; to be drawn from (the tradition of); to be derived from; to follow the school (tradition) of

noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's turn; to be on duty; to have one's inning

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to stamp (one's mark, etc.); to seal
• to leave (one's footprints, etc.)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disturb the water; to wake a sleeping dog; to wake a sleeping child [literal]

godan ~る verb:

• to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close ➜ なりかける

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand in a line; to stand in a row
• to be equal

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to jerk one's chin; to nod toward; to point one's chin at ➜ 決る【しゃくる】

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in confusion or commotion; to be in a turmoil; to be crowded or jammed with people