noun:

• someone who curls up under a kotatsu all winter; kotatsu snail - pun on かたつむり - colloquialism ➜ こたつ

noun / ~の noun:

• for winter use

noun:

• winter street dust

noun:

• apple sold during the winter; winter apple

noun:

• winter spiritual austerities

noun:

• winter vacation (holidays)

noun:

• someone who curls up under a kotatsu all winter; kotatsu bug; kotatsu snail - pun on かたつむり - colloquialism ➜ こたつ・こたつむり

noun:

• winter annual; biennial; biennial plant - Botany term

noun:

• atmospheric pressure pattern in winter; winter pressure pattern

~の noun / noun:

• made in the winter (sake)

noun / ~する noun:

• preparations for winter

noun:

• winter fog; fog during winter

noun:

• winter resort

noun:

• winter retreat - Buddhism term ➜ 夏安居

noun:

• winter wind whistling through a bamboo fence

noun:

• summer fires and winter fans; useless things - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• going somewhere warmer for the winter; wintering

noun:

• visiting a shrine naked in winter

noun:

• the winter sun

noun:

• springtime repairing of fences after winter damage - obscure term

adverbial noun / noun:

• late winter
• twelfth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term ➜ 師走

expression:

• when winter comes spring isn't far behind - proverb

noun:

• enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes); winter mushroom; velvet shank; enokitake; enokidake

noun / ~する noun:

• hibernation; winter sleep; torpor

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing the old year out; greeting the New Year; passing the winter; hibernation