expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

pre-noun adjectival:

• next; the next

noun:

• The Gambia; Gambia

noun / ~する noun:

• unemployed person - colloquialism
• vagabond; floater; vagrant - colloquialism

noun:

• day labourer, esp. on the docks ［風太郎］

noun:

• teasing; chaffing; raillery; ridicule; jeering

noun / ~の noun:

• merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping; browsing

adverb:

• in general; generally; mostly; roughly; largely; mainly; on the whole; by and large

noun:

• gist; point; main idea

noun:

• traditional square chair with armrests and a torii-shaped back (used by the emperor, etc. during ceremonies)

expression:

• even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade - from the Humane King Sutra - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• secluding oneself in the mountains; undertaking ascetic practices at a mountain temple
• retreat; off-site meeting

noun:

• leatherman; conspicuously gay male who belongs to the leather subculture and engages in bodybuilding - From English "hard gay"

noun:

• inactive bank account (no withdrawals or deposits made, and to which the owner's rights have been terminated)

noun:

• postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September - From English "heart mail"

noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• one country, two systems (Chinese policy allowing for the communist mainland and capitalist areas such as Hong Kong)

noun:

• Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))

noun:

• Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)

noun:

• Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines) ➜ お火焚

noun:

• Randall's pygmy goby (Trimma randalli, species in Palau and the Philippines)

noun:

• spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, a shortnose chimaera found in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

expression:

• mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)

adverb:

• straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly; at once