noun / ~する noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ

noun:

• Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen) - called けいさく in Rinzai Zen, きょうさく in Soto Zen - abbreviation ➜ 警覚策励・座禅
• horsewhip ［けいさく］

noun:

• Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term

noun:

• on the bank of; by the side of (e.g. a river, pond) - esp. ほとり
• (in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearby

suffix noun:

• around (Sunday, last year, etc...) ［あたり］
• for instance ［あたり］

noun / ~する noun:

• working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• moment by moment; hour by hour

expression:

• moment by moment; hour by hour

noun:

• point by point; article by article

noun:

• letter by letter; character by character - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

expression:

• How can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); Only a hero can understand a hero - four character idiom

noun:

• (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; (unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization - four character idiom

expression:

• for money; just for money; by means of money; by force of money

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to grab someone by the collar; to grab someone by the lapels

noun / ~する noun:

• raising (a question); bringing up (a problem); instituting (a lawsuit); filing (a claim); submitting (a case)
• lifting up - archaism

noun:

• using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem

noun:

• inn; tavern; hatago; Edo period lodging for travellers ➜ 旅籠屋
• basket used by travellers to carry food and other supplies
• basket used by travellers to carry horse fodder - orig. meaning

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to happen to pass by; to pass by ➜ 通り掛かる【とおりかかる】

noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be astonished to hear; to be incredulous about; to express disbelief
• who do you think you're kidding by saying (that); what a laugh! - as 〜が聞いてあきれる, used to indicate incredulous dismissal of some claim

expression:

• one cannot live solely by oneself; one cannot accomplish anything solely by oneself; cannot clap with just one hand [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)