noun:

• freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium spp., esp. the Oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense)

noun / ~する noun:

• lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name; collective name; generic term ➜ 総称

noun:

• savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

ichidan verb:

• to crop; to shear; to cut or trim something evenly; to make all the same length - obscure term

noun:

• marigold (esp. the French marigold, Tagetes patula) ➜ マリーゴールド
• plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) ➜ ハルシャ菊
• northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) ➜ 孔雀羊歯

expression / noun:

• two-top (soccer formation); formation with two forwards at the front line - Sports term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

noun:

• plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)

noun:

• Kyoto's children ➜ 京童
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext ➜ 京童

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to knock at the gate
• to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil

noun:

• guidepost; signpost
• guide; manual; handbook
• tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica) ➜ 斑猫

noun:

• vesper bat (Vespertilionidae spp., esp. the Asian particolored bat, Vespertilio sinensis); evening bat; common bat

noun:

• gambling mat (for dice games)
• altar mat for laying out offerings during the Bon festival

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sell out before the price falls (usu. shares); to sell at a profit

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ おおよそ
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

noun:

• zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects
• hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family) ［四手・垂］

expression:

• if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.) - archaism

adjective:

• near; close; short (distance)
• close (in time); soon
• close (relationship); friendly; intimate
• closely related
• similar; likeworthy; almost the same

noun:

• transfer; switching over; change
• money transfer (usu. between accounts held by the same person)
• postal transfer - abbreviation ➜ 郵便振替

noun:

• a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section; a tune; note; strain; measure

noun:

• kerchief worn by women in former times in Japan in cold weather, covering the whole head (except eyes)

noun:

• unrhymed non-metrical Japanese popular love song or limerick in the 7-7-7-5 syllable pattern - obscure term - obsolete term - archaism