noun:

• race to be the pitcher with the most wins in the season - Baseball term - From English "hurler derby"

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

noun:

• cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to break off; to knock off
• to create a false eye by sacrificing a stone (in go)

noun:

• pigeon seen on the morning of the New Year (e.g. as one is going to the shrine or temple for the New Year prayers)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to capture all the popularity; to steal the show; to upstage

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the game in one's hands; to hold the key to victory

expression / ichidan verb:

• to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get the hang of; to learn the secret to

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to handle well; to handle deftly
• to deal with; to manage; to settle; to sort; to process
• to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.); to cut and trim (fish)
• to sell out (completely); to dispose of (all stock)
• to untangle; to disentangle; to part; to arrange (e.g. the hem of a kimono)

ichidan verb:

• to have become worn
• to be used to the ways of the world

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to duff (golf); to sclaff; to hit the ground behind the ball during a stroke - Sports term ➜ ダフ

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to tear off; to rip off

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to switch off; to turn off

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to tear off; to rip off

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to show one's true colors (colours); to expose one's faults; to give oneself away

noun:

• cap worn by masked dancer (cap covers hair and nape and reaches to the shoulders)

noun / ~の noun:

• first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a rest under a tree; to rest in the shade of a tree

adverb:

• (what) the heck; (why) in the world; (who) on earth - before an interrogative, forms an emphatic question

noun:

• one object; one body; unity
• one form; one style
• one Buddhist image (or carving, etc.)

adverbial noun:

• generally; in general ➜ 一体に

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (in) - usu. 勤める
• to serve (as); to act (as); to fill (the position of); to play the role (of) - usu. 務める
• to conduct a religious service - usu. 勤める

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to take (a resource, e.g. time or money) ➜ 時間がかかる

godan ~る verb:

• to hang
• to come into view; to arrive ➜ お目にかかる
• to come under (a contract, a tax)
• to start (engines, motors)
• to attend; to deal with; to handle

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to have started to; to be on the verge of

godan ~る verb:

• to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to (come) at

godan ~る verb:

• to be fastened ➜ 鍵がかかる
• to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)
• to be caught in ➜ 罠にかかる
• to get a call ➜ 電話が掛かる
• to depend on

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to wait on someone hand and foot; to take personal care of someone