noun:

• dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye) ➜ 藍

expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun:

• Empress Dowager's palace

noun / ~する noun:

• giving one's all to

noun:

• anniversary of a person's death - four character idiom

noun:

• adjusting one's fare for riding past one's destination

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pay for one's transgression; to receive punishment for one's crime

noun:

• pilgrim's staff

noun:

• author's personal rights; moral rights

noun:

• Adam's ale; tap water - humorous term

expression / noun:

• tip of one's nose

noun:

• hell's mountain of needles - Buddhism term

noun:

• women's liberationist

noun:

• inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; the trouble of coming (going) [literal] - polite language

expression:

• it's always darkest before the dawn; the darkest hour is just before the dawn

noun:

• King's English

noun:

• one's usual medicine

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• going against one's will; contrary to one's intentions; going against one's desire; going contrary to one's wishes

noun:

• Banti's syndrome

noun:

• increase in a samurai's stipend

noun:

• increasing one's fighting spirit - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to count on one's fingers
• to count down the days (in anticipation); to look forward to

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err (from Analects of Confucius)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a stab at arousing someone's interest - idiom
• (for a shrine maiden) to present water to spirits while invoking them
• to offer water before a grave

noun:

• Kloss's mole (Euroscaptor klossi)