ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be sunburnt; to fade (in the sun); to glow red (i.e. of the sky at sunset) ［焼ける］
• to be jealous; to be envious

noun / ~する noun:

• payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold
• inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed

noun:

• Aum Shinrikyo incidents; string of incidents, crimes, etc. committed by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group in the 1980s

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いけじめ］
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いけしめ
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いけしめ

noun:

• detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers) ➜ 目明かし・岡っ引き
• detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs

noun:

• nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

expression:

• around the end of (a period of time)

noun:

• the easy way; attaining rebirth in the Pure Land through the vows of Amitabha (as opposed to one's own efforts) - Buddhism term ➜ 難行道

noun:

• thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• victimized by the unlucky year; victimised by the unlucky year

noun:

• beginning of the month or the year; New Year's Day; the calendar

noun:

• hero package (commercial in which the product is the hero of the segment)

noun:

• 'ra'-removed; the practice of skipping the 'ra' from the 'rareru' verb conjugation - abbreviation ➜ ら抜き言葉

expression / ichidan verb:

• to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match - Sumo term

noun:

• barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to go over the hump; to get successfully through the bulk of the work

expression:

• the proof of the pudding is in the eating; evidence is better than debate [literal]

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

noun:

• (since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• High Court of Justice (UK); Parlement (France, during the ancien régime) ➜ 最高法院

noun:

• arch of the foot; plantar arch; (the part that) does not step on the ground [literal]

noun:

• the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects - abbreviation ➜ 八宗
• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian ➜ 入唐八家

noun:

• two books on the art of war in ancient China; the secrets (essence) of the art of war; secrets of successful life; precepts for living - four character idiom