expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

noun / ~する noun:

• effecting de facto constitutional changes through creative interpretation of the existing constitution; reinterpretation of the constitution - four character idiom

noun:

• Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration & Popular Affairs) ➜ 弁官

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to collect the ashes of the deceased
• to look after someone's affairs after he dies

noun:

• portable stove for boiling water to make tea used for the tea ceremony during the summer

noun:

• coiled dragon; dragon coiled on the earth, which has not yet ascended to the sky

noun:

• New Year (esp. first three days)
• the first month of the year; January

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment - onomatopoeia

noun:

• blue sky
• skyrocketing (of prices); having no limit; the sky being the limit - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag ➜ 問うに落ちず語るに落ちる

noun:

• Earth light (illumination of the moon by light reflected from the Earth); earthshine

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion - proverb

noun:

• dismissal of class (at the end of the day) ➜ 放課後
• recess (at school); break - Nagoya dialect

noun:

• waning gibbous moon; moon of the 19th day of the lunar month ➜ 臥待月

noun:

• within the prefecture (of Kyoto or Osaka)
• within the town limits of Edo - archaism ➜ 御府内

noun:

• mass; setting of the ordinary of the mass (Kyrie, Credo, etc.) - Music term

noun:

• anti-wind (device, facility or measure)
• Saposhnikovia divaricata (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
• Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine) ➜ 浜防風

noun:

• lower reaches (of a river) Antonym: 上【かみ】
• bottom; lower part
• lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); urine; menses
• end; far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan)

~の noun:

• dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to pull out; to draw out; to extract; to unplug; to weed
• to omit; to leave out; to go without; to skip

auxiliary verb / godan ~く verb:

• to do to the end; to carry through

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to let out (e.g. air from a tyre); to drain (e.g. water from a bath); to empty
• to pick out; to choose; to select; to extract
• to pilfer; to steal
• to remove; to get rid of; to take out
• to pass; to overtake; to outstrip; to get ahead of
• to pierce; to break through; to go through - also written 貫く
• to cut out (a shape); to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area
• to seize; to capture; to reduce
• to scoop (a story)
• to take out (an opponent's stones; in go)

godan ~く verb:

• to masturbate (of a male); to ejaculate (while masturbating) - slang - vulgar
• to take (a photo); to record (video) - slang

noun:

• palace room for government officials or ladies in waiting
• room inside a palace or private estate allocated to employees; person living in such a room
• boarding house for trainee administrators (Ritsuryo period) ➜ 大学寮

noun / ~する noun:

• national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners) ➜ 開国

noun:

• sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

noun / ~する noun:

• busying oneself about (something); being on the move; bestirring oneself; on the go; taking an active interest - four character idiom

noun:

• Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) ➜ 下関条約

expression:

• too many cooks spoil the broth; too many captains will steer the ship up a mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Minister of the Interior (669-1868 CE); Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945 CE) - archaism ➜ 内大臣