noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment

noun / ~する noun:

• change in mentality; changing one's way of thinking; adjusting psychologically to shifting circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out - four character idiom

noun:

• show-off underwear; wearing clothes that reveal part of one's pants

expression:

• no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; fire on the opposite shore [literal]

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれない・止むに止まれぬ

noun:

• wooden box carried on one's back to store items for a pilgrimage

noun:

• Little's disease (i.e. spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy)

suffix:

• route; road
• distance travelled in a day
• one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s) ➜ 七十路

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have one's feet reach the bottom (e.g. when standing in water)

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれない

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれぬ

expression:

• there is no comparison between the two; it's not a same-day discussion [literal] - proverb

noun:

• archer's glove (with a groove for pulling the string)

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

noun:

• December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) - Kansai dialect ➜ 体育座り

noun / ~する noun:

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

noun:

• rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day) - Food term

noun:

• pointing towards somebody or something with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) ➜ 体育座り【たいいくずわり】

noun:

• snakeberry (Maianthemum dilatatum); two-leaved Solomon's seal; false lily of the valley

noun:

• denied freedom (of how to live one's life); living like a caged bird [literal] - four character idiom

counter:

• double; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term