godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
• to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate
• to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously

noun:

• siblings; brothers and sisters ➜ ご兄弟
• brothers
• siblings-in-law; brothers-in-law; sisters-in-law
• mate; friend - familiar language - male language

noun:

• sitting outdoors - archaism
• room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion ➜ 寝殿造り
• temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies

adverb:

• in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it ➜ 詰まり【つまり】

expression:

• one cannot have pain without pleasure, and one cannot have pleasure without pain

noun:

• (fixing) boundaries for religious practices - Buddhism term
• prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice) - Buddhism term
• fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple - Buddhism term
• short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store - archaism ➜ 帳場格子
• barrier; dimensional barrier; containment zone; containment barrier; mystical barrier - esp. in games, manga, etc. - colloquialism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha); to pay one's respects
• to beg; to make a supplication
• to see (something or someone of high status) - sometimes used sarcastically in modern Japanese - humble language

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to reminisce about ➜ 省みる【かえりみる】
• to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to look over one's shoulder
• to consider; to concern oneself about; to take notice of; to pay attention to; to take into consideration - usu. in the negative

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to groan; to moan
• to roar; to howl; to growl
• to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to whiz; to sough; to make a low, dull sound
• to ooh and aah (in admiration)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to sing in a strong, low voice (esp. traditional chant or recitation)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be about to burst; to overflow

noun:

• knowledge and action
• ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege; territory given by one's liege ➜ 知行【ちぎょう】

noun:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

noun:

• fleeting life; this transient world; floating world
• sad world; world of grief and worry - esp. 憂き世
• the world of the living; this life; this world; the present world
• (the world of the) red light districts

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

noun / ~する noun:

• permanent staff; permanent employee; service for a fixed period of time - obscure term

noun:

• (Edo era) a daimyo or feudal retainer who lived and/or served in Edo for a fixed period of time - archaism

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stick through; to force through
• to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse
• to make a path between two points
• to proceed in a logical manner ➜ 筋を通す【すじをとおす】
• to let pass; to allow through
• to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.); to show in
• to go through (a middleman)
• to (look, listen) through (a window, wall, etc.)
• to pass (a law, applicant, etc.)
• to force to accept; to force agreement
• to continue (in a state); to persist in
• to do to the entirety of; to cover all of; to span the whole ...
• to do from beginning to end without a break - in the form とおして…する
• to convey (one's ideas, etc.) to the other party
• to do to the end; to carry through; to complete - after the -te form of a verb

noun:

• alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty) - four character idiom ➜ 合従・連衡
• (tactic of) making & breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient - four character idiom

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

noun:

• dish placed on the far side of the serving table (kaiseki cuisine); side dishes at a banquet (e.g. sashimi, salad, vinegared dish; not rice or soup) - Food term ➜ 懐石
• resting one's forehead on the chest of one's opponent and grabbing his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.)
• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子棚
• (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors ➜ 厨子甕

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

noun:

• fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together)
• relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; link; connection
• family ties; affinity
• opportunity; chance (to meet someone and start a relationship) ［えん］
• pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes) ［えん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 因
• narrow open-air veranda ［えん］ - also written as 椽

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】