noun:

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

noun:

• marginal seal (special seal affixed into the margins of an official document to indicate that any later revisions to the document are valid)

noun:

• Zen monk's waistcoat (short, informal kasaya) - archaism ➜ 袈裟・絡子【らくす】
• ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat
• netsuke; item attached to a netsuke ➜ 根付け

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】

noun:

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

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

proper noun:

• Epistle to the Hebrews (book of the Bible); Letter to the Hebrews; Hebrews ➜ ヘブライ人への手紙

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

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• being held in suspense; being on edge; scared stiff; one's testicles going up and down [literal] - idiom - male language ➜ 上がったり下がったり【あがったりさがったり】

expression:

• time flies like an arrow; time and tide wait for no man; life is short - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• (lying on one's belly and) basking in the sun; sunbathing (e.g. on a beach)

noun:

• sea air; sea breeze ［海気］
• ocean and atmosphere ［海気］
• type of yarn-dyed silk goods

noun:

• retribution; retributive justice; karma; just deserts; poetic justice; reward and punishment for one's past behavior - four character idiom