noun / ~する noun:

• seasonal change of clothing; changing (one's) dress for the season - reading is gikun for 更衣 ➜ 更衣【こうい】
• renovation; facelift; changing appearance

noun / ~する noun:

• submitting to (a demand, one's fate, etc.); putting up with; resigning oneself to; accepting (without complaint)

noun:

• Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC ➜ 神武

noun:

• Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day

expression:

• when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives out good money (Gresham's Law) - proverb ➜ グレシャムの法則

ichidan verb:

• to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

noun:

• spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures - four character idiom

noun:

• pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters - Sumo term

suffix:

• having a tendency towards; being close to

noun / ~する noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist) - slang

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position - Sumo term

expression:

• talk is cheap; it's easier to say than to do; building Osaka Castle by talking [literal] - proverb

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle
• dragonfly (esp. a large one)

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】

noun:

• pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate - colloquialism

noun:

• ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip
• walking in large steps
• walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a mess of it; to make a hash of it; to fail and lose face; to embarrass oneself
• to spread miso (e.g. on konnyaku) - orig. meaning

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】・立つ鳥跡を濁さず

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw (water, etc.); to scoop up; to pump up; to dip up
• to draw on (ideas) (from subordinates, the public, etc.); to take into account; to adopt

noun:

• Okinawa (prefecture); region comprising most of Japan's southwestern archipelago (esp. Okinawa Island) ➜ 琉球
• Okinawa (city)