noun:

• message appended to a note accompanying a gift, requesting the recipient to keep the gift at hand

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let someone have the credit for (a success); to let someone else carry the flowers [literal]

godan ~る verb:

• to Google (i.e. to search for on the WWW using the Google search engine) - colloquialism

noun:

• Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana); Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise

noun / ~する noun:

• replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new - four character idiom

expression:

• like the young man who tried to walk like the Kantan people, gave up, and forgot how to walk

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to build up; to establish - esp. 成す
• to form; to become (a state) - esp. 成す
• to accomplish; to achieve; to succeed in
• to change into
• to do; to perform - esp. 為す

auxiliary verb:

• to intend to; to attempt; to try - archaism

expression:

• to live long is to outlive much; the longer you live, the more shame you suffer - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate (both figuratively and visually)
• to identify (whether an object is positive or negative in some aspect); to know the difference between something of superior and inferior quality (on sight or figuratively)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand on tiptoe; to rise in the world; to become arrogant

expression:

• to whom it may concern; to the involved parties; to all persons concerned - honorific language

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance ➜ 捗【はか】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to aim for laughs; to play to the crowd

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down
• to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

adverbial noun / noun:

• to the end of time; to the crack of doom; for ever and ever

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to lay the foundation for (e.g. a theory); to lay the basis for

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exclude; to close the door to

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to blame; to reproach; to censure; to rebuke; to reprove; to find fault; to take to task; to criticize; to criticise
• to question (a suspect); to challenge

ichidan verb:

• to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated; to get inflamed

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to prick (one's conscience) ➜ 気が咎める

noun:

• the easy way; attaining rebirth in the Pure Land through the vows of Amitabha (as opposed to one's own efforts) - Buddhism term ➜ 難行道

noun:

• thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to loaf (particularly on the job); to idle one's time away; to dawdle