noun:

• matchmaker; go-between ➜ 仲人

noun:

• go-between (in marriage)

noun:

• marriage between co-workers

noun:

• flying race (between pigeons)

expression:

• through a go-between

noun / ~する noun:

• quarrel between brothers

noun / ~する noun:

• quarrel between sisters

noun:

• eating between meals; snacking

~の noun:

• between both countries; bilateral

noun:

• footpath between rice fields

noun:

• joint (between bones) ➜ 骨っ節

noun:

• fence (esp. between buildings) - Law term

noun:

• all sides; the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions
• large hanging lantern ➜ 八方行灯

noun:

• the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana) - Buddhism term
• the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)

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:

• our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea [literal] - proverb

noun:

• warrior from the eastern parts of Japan - derogatory term - archaism - Kantō dialect
• eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China) ［とうい］

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

noun:

• the six classes of (kanji) characters ［りくしょ・りきしょ］
• Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)

noun:

• younger princess Antonym: 兄姫
• Princess of the Dragon Palace (from the story of Urashima Taro); Oto-Hime

noun:

• right in the midst of; right at the height of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

expression:

• the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was