expression:

• rubbernecking; the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be moderate in; to be temperate in; to not do too much of
• to refrain (from doing); to withhold (an announcement, comment, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be beside; to be close by

noun:

• heaven and earth; the universe; nature; top and bottom; realm; sphere; world
• top and bottom ［てんち］
• gods of heaven and earth ［あめつち］

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to be weary; to be worn out; to be tired - onomatopoeia
• to be fed up (with); to be sick of - onomatopoeia
• to be dejected; to be dispirited; to be disheartened - onomatopoeia

noun:

• going on an alms round (for food); going begging (for food); going to ask for alms of food; pindacara - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• one side; one party; counterpart; the other side; the other party ➜ 両方
• one of a pair; fellow; mate

noun:

• hair on one's head
• head; top of one's head
• kanji "hair" radical at top ［かみがしら］

noun:

• (possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance) - four character idiom
• establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)

noun:

• Kintaro; hero boy of Japanese folklore, who befriended animals and had supernatural strength - childhood name of late-Heian warrior Sakata no Kintoki
• Kintaro doll (usu. having a plump red face, carrying an axe, and wearing a red apron)
• diamond-shaped apron

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving (e.g. work at end of day); withdrawal (e.g. from a noble's or superior's presence); exit (e.g. from a market)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to sing at the top of one's voice; to belt out a song
• to express one's feelings fully in a poem; to praise in poetry

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to boil; to seethe
• to roil (e.g. waterfall, torrent); to foam; to cascade down
• to well up (of emotions); to overflow (e.g. fighting spirit); to seethe (esp. blood)

noun:

• pallesthesia; sense of vibration; vibratory sense; vibratory sensation; vibration perception; vibratory perception - Biology term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to speak ill of; to speak very disparagingly about; to speak very harshly about

noun / ~する noun:

• advance (into a new market or stage of progress); launching (a new career or venture); expanding (into a new market); stepping forward; emerging

noun:

• spring and autumn; spring and fall
• years; age
• The Spring and Autumn Annals; The Chronicles of Lu; Chunqiu; Ch'un Ch'iu ［しゅんじゅう］ ➜ 五経

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor ➜ サルバトールモニター

noun:

• departure; setting off; start
• being used up; being consumed; being burnt out
• passage of time; lapse
• rehearsal - abbreviation ➜ 立ち稽古【たちげいこ】
• leading male role in kabuki - abbreviation ➜ 立ち役【たちやく】
• rising from a crouch to charge; initial charge; faceoff - abbreviation - Sumo term ➜ 立会い【たちあい】

prefix:

• verb prefix conveying emphasis and sometimes formality

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

expression / noun:

• hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda [literal] - idiom
• off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennouji - orig. meaning

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to point
• to nominate; to select someone; to specify some person
• to identify; to indicate; to point out
• to play (a game of shogi); to move (a piece) - Shōgi term
• to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance) ➜ 差す

noun / ~の noun:

• being free from all distracting thoughts; keeping one's mind clear of all worldly thoughts; being free from all ideas and thoughts - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help - four character idiom

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