noun:

• length of a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
• walking on the edge of a sword

noun / ~の noun:

• pericarp (ripened ovary wall forming part of a fruit)
• skin (of a fruit); peel; rind

noun:

• sign of a ship (e.g. through fog, silhouette, etc.); outline of a ship

noun:

• cavities in the frame of a door used as part of a pivot hinge ➜ 枢【くるる】
• door

noun:

• outer material of a garment; shell of a jacket or coat; garment minus the lining ➜ 裏地

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have many visitors (of a home); to be prosperous (of a shop)

noun:

• method of patterning fabric by pounding on leaves (or flowers, etc.) placed on it, or by rubbing in dye made from these materials - obscure term
• coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye; fabric colored in such a manner ➜ 摺り込み染め

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

noun:

• loading a horse with passengers or baggage
• driving a horse into a pen
• Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid) - abbreviation ➜ 馬追虫

expression:

• The world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). - Chinese legend - four character idiom

expression:

• The world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). - Chinese legend - four character idiom

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a family (e.g. wife or husband and children); to raise a family ➜ 所帯を持つ

noun:

• profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view - four character idiom

noun:

• scenic sites and historic places; places of natural beauty and historic interest - four character idiom

expression:

• all pain and no gain; lots of pain and not much gain - idiom

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

noun:

• clasping your chopsticks between your hands as in a gesture of prayer (a breach of etiquette)

noun / suffix noun:

• compilation (of a text); editing

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• volume (of a text)
• completed literary work

noun:

• beginning (of a book, magazine, etc.); opening page
• beginning (of a matter); start

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion - proverb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to establish a school of; to make a home of one's own

noun:

• exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text
• study of biblical interpretation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)