noun:

• having one's workplace at home; living and working at the same location (independent farmers, home workers, storekeepers, etc.) - four character idiom

expression:

• it's probably so; it stands to reason

noun:

• NTT's unmetered telephone service

expression:

• leaving everything to Buddha's providence; depending on others; leaving things to others

noun:

• a boat's floorboards; ship's hold

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to hold one's life dear; to be reluctant to die

noun:

• Peale's dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis)

noun:

• chocolate given by a boy to a girl on Valentine's day - obscure term

noun:

• poem's locale

expression:

• fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing - idiom

noun:

• divining one's own fortune

noun:

• having one's choice

noun:

• one's wife ➜ 妻【つま】

noun:

• Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo ➜ 十一【じゅういち】

noun:

• Let's Play; recorded playthrough of a video game (usu. with player commentary)

noun:

• poking one's food around using one's chopsticks; playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to make merry and forget one's troubles; to do as one pleases - colloquialism

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to repine at one's hard lot

noun:

• angular Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum); scented Solomon's seal

noun:

• decorated pottery container for storing the bones of one's ancestors (Okinawa) - called じ〜しか〜み or じ〜しが〜み in Okinawa ➜ 厨子

noun:

• one's late mother

noun:

• builder's risk insurance; construction insurance

noun:

• clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern - archaism ➜ 忍【しのぶ】

noun / ~する noun:

• tiger's howling
• "being out and active in the world (of a hero, etc.)" [figurative]

noun:

• one's in-laws (esp. a woman's in-laws)