adverb:

• once in a while; occasionally; seldom; at long intervals

noun:

• point (of a conversation, etc.); sense
• hold; grip

noun:

• wife (esp. of a prominent, recently married man)

noun:

• first proponent; initiator and advocate (e.g. of a theory)

noun:

• wiles; trick; artifice; coquetry
• lover (male) (esp. of a prostitute) ➜ 間夫

noun:

• the sense of being engulfed in a green, mountainous atmosphere

noun / ~する noun:

• consultation at an office (as opposed to a house call) ➜ 往診

noun:

• the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains - four character idiom - Buddhism term
• a series of disasters

noun:

• fire lit at a gate for funerals, weddings and Obon

noun:

• speed of a boat
• draft; draught ［ふなあし］

noun:

• carving with a knife - four character idiom
• cheap trick; simple trickery; petty strategem

noun:

• small door which leads into a tea ceremony hut

noun:

• Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations) ➜ 音読み

noun:

• ceremony in which paper lanterns are floated down a river

noun:

• painful reproach (like a needle stuck in one's scalp)

noun:

• ball of bean paste covered with a kudzu starch glaze

noun / ~する noun:

• (of a couple) fighting and splitting up

noun:

• bonus paid to employees on occasion of a full house

noun:

• ex-emperor who becomes a monk
• (Catholic) Pope; religious leader

noun:

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

noun:

• boards covering a ditch (drainage, sewage, etc.)

noun:

• the lone woman (e.g. bright flower) in a group

noun:

• shaft (e.g. in a mine); pit

noun:

• standee (in a theatre); standing-room spectator; the gallery

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 御旅所