noun:

• Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom

noun:

• following a river

noun:

• riverbed ［かしょう・かわどこ］
• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer ［かわどこ・かわゆか・ゆか］

noun:

• across a river

noun:

• otter (Lutra lutra)
• Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

noun:

• glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk

noun:

• amanatsu (Citrus natsudaidai); sweet form of Chinese citron ➜ 甘夏

noun:

• riverside willow (esp. rosegold pussy willow, Salix gracilistyla) ➜ 猫柳
• Salix gilgiana (species of willow) ［川柳］ - usually written using kana alone
• high-quality coarse tea ［川柳］

noun:

• golden venus chub (Hemigrammocypris rasborella)

noun:

• Margaritifera laevis (species of freshwater pearl mussel)

noun:

• common merganser

noun:

• plover on the riverside; plovers near a river

noun:

• course of a river; land along a river

noun:

• freshwater fish cuisine

noun:

• enjoying oneself on a river (e.g. boating, swimming, fishing)

noun:

• buckskin (horse color)

noun:

• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)

noun:

• great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

noun:

• the other side of a river
• the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live - sensitive

noun:

• type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg

noun:

• Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum) ➜ シベリアヤツメ

noun:

• cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)

noun:

• Oriental greenfinch (Carduelis sinica)

noun:

• pike (esp. the Amur pike, Esox reichertii); pickerel

noun:

• Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) - obscure term ➜ 田鰻