noun:

• unauthorized travel; riding without a valid ticket (e.g. on a train); stealing a ride

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:

• the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings) ➜ 庚申待

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to throw something to each other; to pass something back and forth; to bandy something around
• to take part in a pitching duel - Baseball term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• having presence of mind; self-possessed; imperturbable; calm and self-possessed - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• resident in Japan (of a foreigner); situated in Japan (e.g. of an embassy)

noun:

• Korean living in Japan - abbreviation - sensitive ➜ 在日韓国人・在日朝鮮人

noun:

• black vinegar, usu. produced from unpolished rice
• charred kelp or shiitake mushrooms ground and mixed with vinegar, used to dress raw fish and vegetables

noun:

• dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack
• my house; my home - humble language
• small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)

noun:

• six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian) ➜ 左方唐楽

noun:

• pupil and (dark) iris of the eye ➜ 白目【しろめ】

~の noun:

• dark-eyed; sloe-eyed

noun:

• the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite

noun:

• benefit and protection of the law; interests protected by law; legal benefit

noun:

• Daesh; IS; Islamic State; ISIL; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - From Arabic "da'ish"

noun:

• standard family unit; family of two adults and two children

noun:

• standard family unit; family of two adults and two children ➜ モデル世帯

noun:

• welfare; public welfare; social welfare
• (former) Ministry of Health and Welfare - abbreviation ➜ 厚生省

adverb:

• in groups of twos and threes; in small groups - four character idiom

noun:

• standard family unit; family of two adults and two children ➜ モデル世帯

ichidan verb:

• (for a fruit) to go bad and lose its shape from being overripe or damaged
• to feel listless; to be dull; to be lazy; to look bored

noun / ~する noun:

• circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)

noun:

• room behind the curtain of a noh stage, where the actors prepare; greenroom (noh); mirror room [literal]
• hall of mirrors (at Versailles)

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

noun:

• bibliography (i.e. the study of books)
• bibliology (i.e. the study of books, booklore and bibliography)

yodan ~る verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to cause heartache because of a (hidden) love; to be miserable because of love - archaism