noun:

• country living; life in the country; country life

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to highlight something; to bring something to the forefront

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to drift together; to drift to the shore

adverb / pronoun:

• this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that

adverb:

• around; about; round about; roughly; nearly; almost ［かれこれ］

noun:

• Kintaro; hero boy of Japanese folklore, who befriended animals and had supernatural strength - childhood name of late-Heian warrior Sakata no Kintoki
• Kintaro doll (usu. having a plump red face, carrying an axe, and wearing a red apron)
• diamond-shaped apron

noun:

• box-and-whisker plot; box-and-whisker diagram; box plot; boxplot - Mathematics term

noun:

• actual spot; scene; scene of the crime; site; location; setting ➜ 現地・現場を押さえる【げんばをおさえる】
• shop floor; factory floor; (on) site ［げんば］

~と adverb / adverb:

• more; much more; still more; all the more

noun:

• step; rung; level; rank
• paragraph; passage
• ichidan (verb, verb conjugation) - abbreviation ➜ 一段動詞【いちだんどうし】・一段活用【いちだんかつよう】・五段

noun:

• (being in) the red; deficit Antonym: 黒字
• red letter; red writing
• corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to catch; to stop the blow
• to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept; to come to grips with

adverb:

• as much as possible; as far as possible; to the best of one's ability; diligently

noun / ~する noun:

• softening Antonym: 硬化
• softening (of attitude); mollification Antonym: 硬化
• weakening (of the market) Antonym: 硬化
• blanching (e.g. of vegetables; by depriving of light)

noun:

• beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥諷詠
• artistic pursuits involving nature themes

noun:

• deepest level (of an art, skill, etc.); secret teachings; mysteries; innermost secrets; the secret (of success, etc.)

noun:

• 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall ➜ 小春日和

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 本狂言

noun:

• male Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea) - colloquialism ➜ 精霊飛蝗
• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) - obsolete term ➜ 精霊飛蝗擬

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭

expression:

• when one door is shut, another is open; the world is as kind as it is cruel - proverb

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• chevron tang (Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis, species of bristletooth tang from the Pacific); black surgeonfish; Hawaiian kole; Hawaiian surgeonfish

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】