expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be slightly inferior; to be a degree worse
• to give an inch; to make a concession; to concede a point

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fail to recognize; to fail to recognise ➜ お見逸れ
• to underestimate ➜ お見逸れ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to forget; to fail to recognize; to fail to recognise

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to bring to naught; to bring to nought; to waste

noun:

• exposure to the sun; sunny place
• per day ［日当たり・日当り・日当］

noun:

• someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter ➜ 表方
• lady consort (to a high personage)

noun:

• first day of spring (according to the traditional lunisolar calendar, approx. Feb. 4) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• playing to the gallery; grandstanding; gag; claptrap

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• ad hoc; haphazard

noun:

• dress rehearsal - abbreviation ➜ 場当たり稽古

noun / ~する noun:

• stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution - From English "match pump, i.e. lighting a match and then putting it out with a water pump"

noun / ~する noun:

• spinning of cocoons; silkworm's last sleep; transformation to the pupa stage

noun:

• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - four character idiom

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun / ~する noun:

• drawing seawater to make salt; person who draws water from the sea

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun / ~する noun:

• (system of) extending complicity for a crime to the criminal's family members

noun:

• sitting while waiting; (according to the lunar calendar) an eighteen-day-old moon

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• uninteresting; tending to spoil the fun (pleasure) (of); throwing a wet blanket (on) - four character idiom

noun:

• the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment - four character idiom

expression:

• Be careful not to invite the least suspicion; Leave no room for scandal - four character idiom

expression:

• Be careful not to invite the least suspicion; Leave no room for scandal - four character idiom

expression:

• (to be pushed) toward the middle (of a crowd) (usually against your will)

noun / ~する noun:

• wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else

expression / godan ~る verb:

• clapping with wooden clappers (to signal the beginning or end of a performance) - obscure term

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)

noun:

• 1.818 m (6 shaku)

counter:

• counter used to number the gaps between pillars