noun:

• part of the fabric that is wrapped farthest from the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 下前
• percentage; commission ➜ 上米【うわまい】

expression:

• there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave - proverb

noun:

• (yarn) count

suffix:

• n-th place (e.g. in a race); n-th in position (e.g. a starting lineup) - as in 二番手 ➜ 一番手

noun:

• person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job

expression:

• in being immobile be like a mountain (from Sun Tzu); being imperturbable; immobile like a mountain (from laziness, etc.)

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

noun:

• baldness; bald head
• children's hairstyle of short untied hair; children with short untied hair ［かぶろ・かむろ］
• young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period) ［かぶろ・かむろ］ ➜ 太夫・天神
• idiot; moron - derogatory term - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• a number of interesting stories; book containing a number of interesting stories

noun:

• food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table) ➜ 膳部

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the high side
• on the expensive side; comparatively expensive ➜ 安め【やすめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score - Mahjong term

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

noun:

• mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers)
• landscape picture ［さんすい］ - abbreviation ➜ 山水画
• mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain
• garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond ［さんすい］ ➜ 築山

noun:

• good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense - four character idiom

noun:

• traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers ➜ 衣冠・束帯
• crown; diadem; coronet
• top kanji radical ［かんむり］
• first verse of a haikai, etc. ［かむり］ ➜ 俳諧

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• best; peerless; first ［かん］

noun:

• name; title; named sponsorship of a program, event, team, etc. ［かんむり］

noun:

• road; path; street; lane; passage
• route; way
• distance; journey
• road (e.g. to victory); course
• way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
• teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
• field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
• means; way; method

noun:

• interior of the womb (of a pregnant woman); interior of the uterus
• interior of a Buddhistic statue

noun / ~する noun:

• heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse - four character idiom

noun:

• having good knowledge of a certain matter; person who has good knowledge of a certain matter; informed source ➜ 通

noun / ~の noun:

• old person; elderly person; senior citizen

noun:

• trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay - Sumo term
• senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)
• important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

noun / ~の noun:

• substance; real form
• main part; main unit; body (of a machine)

noun:

• this machine; this appliance

noun / ~の noun:

• object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
• noumenon

noun:

• base price; pre-tax price - abbreviation ➜ 本体価格【ほんたいかかく】

expression:

• it's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard [literal] - proverb

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language ➜ 約束

noun / ~の noun:

• something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom