noun:

• Regional Rapid Service (JR West); Section Rapid Service; RRS; SRS; train service which is local for one section and express for another

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

noun:

• something cold (esp. a body)
• something used to cool one's stomach

conjunction:

• for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of
• because of; as a result of

noun:

• hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.) ➜ 片仮名

noun:

• rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt, used for preparing sushi; sushi rice - Food term

noun:

• the privy purse; the money used for private purposes by the members of the Imperial family

noun:

• day of national humiliation (used in China for certain anniversaries of incidents where Japan humiliated China)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have luck turn one's way; to have one's fortune change for the better

noun:

• Wei-To (temple guardian sometimes confused with Vajrapani) - Buddhism term

expression:

• Even a fool may sometimes give good counsel - four character idiom

expression:

• Even a fool may sometimes give good counsel - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayaura divination ➜ 粥占

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to devote oneself wholeheartedly to; to sacrifice one's health for; to risk one's life

numeric:

• 10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million

noun:

• hundred-yen store; 100 yen shop - abbreviation ➜ １００円均一ショップ・１００円均一

noun:

• niche or alcove for an image
• (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) - abbreviation
• lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo) ➜ 桟竹

noun:

• one sheet; one page; one leaf
• one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant)
• one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.) - also written as 一挺, 一梃
• one cho (unit of distance, 109.09 m)
• one game; one task

adverbial noun:

• well then; come then

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to use one's own money; to pay for from one's own pocket

noun / ~の noun:

• a bundle; a hundred

noun:

• format (esp. of publication, e.g. A5, B4, etc.) ［判型］
• size of a sheet of paper used for ukiyoe

noun:

• futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)
• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

noun / ~の noun:

• grandfather
• old man ［おおじ］ ➜ 爺
• kyogen mask used for the role of an old man ［おおじ］

noun:

• funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis
• funori; glue used as sizing for textiles