noun:

• golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei)

noun:

• laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

noun:

• loach stew; loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root - Food term ➜ 泥鰌

expression:

• still waters run deep - proverb

noun:

• Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1600-1867 CE) ➜ 江戸時代

expression:

• still waters run deep - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to descend a river

noun:

• riverbank; riverside

noun:

• riparian works

noun:

• Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephala)

noun:

• old river

noun:

• river engineering

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cross a river

noun:

• broad-winged damselfly (of family Calopterygidae)

expression:

• being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one) - four character idiom
• know-it-all manner

noun:

• dark chub (Nipponocypris temminckii)

noun:

• spinycheek sleeper (Eleotris oxycephala); spined sleeper

noun:

• bamboo growing along a river bank
• Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• prostitute; the life of a prostitute - archaism

noun:

• tidal river ➜ 海嘯【かいしょう】

noun:

• stonefly (any insect of order Plecoptera, esp. those of family Perlidae)

proper noun:

• Incheon (South Korea); Inchon

noun:

• going downstream (in a boat)

noun:

• river which often overflows its banks

noun:

• Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)

noun:

• kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature) ➜ 河童