noun:

• sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

noun:

• chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste - obscure term

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

noun:

• Ama no Mihashira; the heavenly pillar on Onokoro Island, around which Izanagi and Izanami are said to have wed - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• kitchen-cum-office of a Zen temple or monastery, where meals are prepared and senior priests have their offices

noun:

• drunken driving; driving while intoxicated; drinking and driving

noun:

• silly questions and silly answers; a silly dialogue - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• inflection of words (e.g. declension of nouns and conjugation of verbs) - Linguistics term

noun:

• mineral spring; spring containing many minerals and gas (esp. a cold spring) ➜ 冷泉

noun:

• China and the Soviet Union ➜ ソ連【ソれん】

prefix:

• Sino-Soviet; Soviet-Chinese ➜ 中ソ国境紛争【ちゅうソこっきょうふんそう】

noun:

• Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) ➜ 三名山

noun:

• Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三名山

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三霊山【にほんさんれいざん】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to wait and see; to sit on the fence; to be noncommittal ➜ 日和見

noun:

• correspondence notebook (e.g. between teacher and parents); contact notebook; communication notebook

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wash one's face and hands
• to go to the toilet

godan ~る verb:

• to hit and break open; to crush; to smash - colloquialism

noun:

• three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels) - abbreviation ➜ 簡易宿所

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to meet (someone of higher status) ➜ お目にかかる
• to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); to be visible; to be seen; to be noticed - archaism

noun:

• floor
• stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player)
• dining platform built across a river

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• all; everything; the whole; lock, stock, and barrel

adverbial noun:

• absolutely not (with negative); without exception; entirely not