noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in the Kansai area (approx. 197 cm) ➜ 田舎間
• Kyoto-size tatami mat (approx. 190 cm by 95 cm) ➜ 田舎間

expression:

• now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease - four character idiom

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by

ichidan verb:

• to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be divisible (by); to be divided without residue (remainder)
• to be satisfied; to be convinced - usu. used in the negative ➜ 割り切れない

noun:

• being carried away by a current
• drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river
• cancellation; standing up; breaking a promise

noun:

• on the bank of; by the side of (e.g. a river, pond) - esp. ほとり
• (in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearby

suffix noun:

• around (Sunday, last year, etc...) ［あたり］
• for instance ［あたり］

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker) ➜ 何の【どの】・此れ・其の・彼の

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to break by stepping on; to trample; to stomp on; to stamp through

godan ~る verb:

• to walk across; to travel on foot ➜ 踏破【とうは】

noun:

• whistling through one's fingers; whistle made by sticking one's fingers in one's mouth and blowing

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• man who drives a woman around for free; man used by a woman for his car - slang

expression:

• even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries; even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots [literal] - proverb ➜ 下手な鉄砲も数撃てば当たる

noun:

• member (of a group led by a kumigashira); member (of a fire brigade)
• muntin; mullion; member; fret

noun / ~する noun:

• failing to live up to one's name; being beaten by one's name

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be eaten; to be bitten (e.g. by bugs) ➜ 食う
• to be outdone; to be upstaged

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• conditions; strings attached; restriction; restrictions; controls

noun:

• something that has a cord or string attached (e.g. clothes)
• having a lover; lover - of a woman
• criminal; someone bound by ropes ➜ 縄付き

noun:

• (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; (unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• pushing something out; extrusion
• presence; appearance
• run walked in - Baseball term
• pushing one's opponent out by pressing one's hands up against them - Sumo term