expression:

• (with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force - idiom

noun:

• holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months - archaism

noun:

• area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

noun:

• ceremonial removal of the coffin from the house (lay person) or temple (priest) (Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term

expression:

• by reading books you can count the wise philosophers of the past as friends (Mencius) - four character idiom

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

expression / noun:

• the strong overwhelming the weak; completing various things without difficulty; Mt. Tai crushes an egg [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝【さんぼう】
• dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis) - usually written using kana alone
• roller (any bird of family Coraciidae) - usually written using kana alone
• Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops) ➜ 声の仏法僧

expression / adjective:

• to be no match for (e.g. outclassed in authority, strength or in debt to); to be unable to act on an equal basis with - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to barricade oneself in; to hold (a fort, etc.); to shut oneself up; to be besieged; to dig in

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be crowded; to be packed
• to be complex ➜ 手の込んだ

auxiliary verb:

• to go into; to put into; to remain (seated); to be plunged into (silence); to do thoroughly ［込む］
• to do intently ［込む］
• to continue in the same state ［込む］

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

noun / ~する noun:

• failing to win an electoral seat in a single-member constituency, but winning a seat in a proportionally represented constituency

noun:

• tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting
• tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin - abbreviation ➜ 天目茶碗

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to capitalise on (experience, etc.)
• to let live; to keep alive
• to revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life
• to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit - onomatopoeia
• irritatedly; impatiently - onomatopoeia
• scorchingly (of the sun) - onomatopoeia
• sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil) - onomatopoeia
• sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc. - onomatopoeia
• oozing out (oil, sweat, etc.); seeping out - onomatopoeia

noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to get in; to step in (a house)
• to become complicated

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to decide to
• to pretend that - after the past tense form of a verb
• to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to - as 〜ことにしている

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)

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to take a breath; to gather one's breath; to catch one's breath
• to take a rest; to take a break

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to give thought to; to bear in mind; to keep in mind

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the rules; to violate the rules; to infringe the rules