ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shoot dead; to bring down (an animal)
• to win (a prize, someone's heart, etc.); to make one's own

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be moreish; to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after
• to have lingering effects

expression:

• to (an extent); up to; so far as; even - more emphatic than まで ➜ 迄【まで】
• doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ... - usu. as 〜までもない
• even if ... - usu. as 〜ないまでも

noun:

• Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period

interjection:

• farewell

conjunction:

• be that so; in that case
• however; though that may be the case - accompanied by a negative - archaism

noun:

• successive generations
• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - abbreviation ➜ 譜代大名

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• completely helpless; unable even to drive away the flies on one's own head - idiom

noun:

• small knife that is largely ornamental or used to cut open letters and the like ➜ 小刀

noun:

• thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods) - archaism

noun:

• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

noun:

• rotating stage machinery, which rolls backwards 90 degrees to reveal the next scene

noun:

• BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries

noun:

• dusky batfish (Platax pinnatus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)

noun:

• Osaka Incident; plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising, 1885

noun:

• announcement calling for someone (e.g. "would XX please come to the ticket counter")

noun:

• paper put between newly completed prints to prevent the ink from smudging; interleaf; slip sheet

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period) ➜ バテレン

noun / ~の noun:

• outside the hall (or stadium, market, etc.); off the grounds; off the premises; off-track Antonym: 場内

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 四天王・六欲天

noun / ~する noun:

• intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha