noun / ~する noun:

• put heads together and confer; convene and discuss; go into a huddle (over) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• put heads together and confer; convene and discuss; go into a huddle (over) - four character idiom

noun:

• health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster - four character idiom

noun:

• eel and cucumber salad, finely sliced, dressed in sake, soy, and vinegar - Food term

expression:

• fields and rice paddies that have been abandoned and are no longer cultivated

noun:

• village school (esp. in Edo-era Japan, and ancient Korea and China)

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

noun:

• bow (and arrow)
• unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet)
• unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)

noun:

• credit - abbreviation ➜ 掛け売り・掛け買い
• money owed on an account; bill
• hot noodles in broth - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 掛け蕎麦【かけそば】・掛けうどん【かけうどん】

noun / suffix noun:

• proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price)

suffix:

• in the midst of - after a -masu stem
• rest; rack; hanger - after a noun

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

noun:

• shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
• rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate

noun:

• false science; science out of line with the world of thought

noun:

• facets (aspects) of (human) life; the pattern of (one's) life - four character idiom

noun:

• on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse - four character idiom

noun:

• the pacific side of Japan; eastern sea
• of or about Japan

noun:

• moon of the 13th day of 9th lunar month - archaism ➜ 十三夜
• leap month ➜ 閏月

noun:

• common talk; talk of the town; words of many people

noun:

• cult of the open air; pleinairism; pleinairisme
• painter of pleinairisme; pleinairist

noun:

• young woman strongly interested in pre-Edo history; young woman making use of speech and mannerisms of pre-industrial Japan; female history buff

noun:

• resistance - From French
• popular resistance against a military invasion (especially of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)

noun:

• Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang) ［こくふ］ - abbreviation ➜ 国民政府
• provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital ➜ 律令制

noun:

• Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens) ➜ 四神
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿

noun:

• Pindola; Pindola Bharadvaja (one of four Arhats asked by the Buddha to remain in the world to propagate Buddhist law) - Buddhism term

noun:

• toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.

noun:

• nature of the locality; character of a place; local colour; local color