conjunction / interjection:

• come; come now; come along; go on; hurry up
• well; who knows; I don't know...; uh; hmm
• well now; let's see; there we go; all right - said when surprised or happy
• about that; you see

noun:

• kitchen-cum-office of a Zen temple or monastery, where meals are prepared and senior priests have their offices

noun:

• all means

noun:

• all means

noun:

• way; means

noun:

• required means

noun:

• violent means - four character idiom

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun:

• the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not" - four character idiom

expression:

• with no regard to one's appearances; with no concern of how one's act looks like

expression:

• monks make pure profit; monks need no capital and have no expenses, so their income is pure profit

expression:

• no matter how hard one might try; no matter what one does; even if one stood on one's head [literal] ➜ 逆立ち

noun:

• mirror - archaism - obscure term
• Mafutsu no Kagami (alternate name for Yata no Kagami, the mirror of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 八咫鏡

expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

noun:

• means; way; measure

noun:

• means; method

noun:

• means; resources; wealth

noun:

• patron; effective means

noun:

• way; method; means

noun:

• means of living

noun:

• means of communication

noun:

• (means of) transport

noun:

• means of diagnosis

noun:

• means of production

expression:

• means; is; as for ➜ って