noun:

• humpback batfish (Platax batavianus, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found from Madagascar to Indonesia and Australia)

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇汁

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇鍋

noun:

• length and width; length and breadth; lengthwise and crosswise; longitude and latitude; vertical and horizontal
• four cardinal points; every direction ［じゅうおう］
• as one wishes; as one pleases; at will ［じゅうおう］
• warp and weft; warp and woof ［たてよこ］ ➜ 経緯【たてよこ】

noun:

• samurai costume; old ceremonial costume
• top and bottom; up and down; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends ［上下］ - orig. meaning

temporal noun:

• from (since) ancient times; from time immemorial - four character idiom

noun:

• amount deducted (from); deduction (from); abatement

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to quarry; to cut (timber); to cut and carry off ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］
• to begin to talk; to break the ice; to broach ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す］
• to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.) ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・鑽り出す］
• to select and extract (from a media file); to splice out ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］

noun:

• dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)
• pretext; excuse; pretense (pretence); dupe; front man ［出し］

particle:

• denotes uncertainty ➜ とやら
• such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like; A and B and whatnot - as ＡやらＢやら...

noun:

• preventing a ship from passing or from leaving port

expression:

• from the beginning; from scratch

expression / adverb / ~の noun:

• (starting) from nothing; from scratch

noun / ~する noun:

• going from door to door greeting relatives and friends
• complimentary visit for the New Year

noun:

• dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)

noun:

• hairstyle for men and women from early Edo era to the Genroku era

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be somewhat different (from before, from others, etc.)

expression:

• even; for starters
• so; therefore - emphatic form of から
• judging from; based on
• since; from

noun / ~する noun:

• floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs

noun:

• fortune and misfortune; prosperity and adversity; good and evil; weal and woe

noun:

• essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end

noun / ~する noun:

• going in and out; entering and exiting

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• visiting regularly; frequenting; having regular dealings with

noun:

• income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings
• increase and decrease; surplus and deficit; fluctuation
• fight; trouble; quarrel; dispute
• indentations (e.g. of a coastline)

noun / ~の noun:

• black and white; monochrome

noun:

• good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence

noun / ~する noun:

• ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing