expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物に福がある【のこりものにふくがある】

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物には福がある【のこりものにはふくがある】

adjectival noun / noun:

• dry (esp. as in not wet or as in dry humour)

noun:

• education in art and design; education in drawing and manual arts - four character idiom

noun:

• substrate (i.e. in biochemistry)
• matrix (i.e. in biology); stroma

noun:

• foil (i.e. aluminum foil) ➜ ホイル
• foil (in fencing) ➜ フルーレ
• foil (in Gothic architecture)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• be absorbed in deep thought; be sunk in thought

noun / ~する noun:

• nick in a blade (sword, knife); chip in a blade

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to assemble (in a hall); to meet together (in a room)

expression:

• one cannot have pain without pleasure, and one cannot have pleasure without pain

noun:

• my lord; my master; one's own lord; one's own master - in kyogen, etc. - honorific language ➜ 頼うだ人

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• one-coin (i.e. able to be paid for with only one coin, esp. a 500-yen coin, sometimes a 100-yen coin); costing 500 yen; costing 100 yen

noun:

• Showa-era stage show in which a woman would stand half-naked in a frame (resembling a Western-style painting)

noun:

• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
• Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido ➜ 和人地

noun:

• large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; cramp (metal)
• tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together)

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa)

adverb:

• in a line; in a row - onomatopoeia

~する noun / ~の noun:

• to contact; to get in touch ➜ ご連絡

noun:

• contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message ➜ ご連絡
• connection; coordination; junction

~の noun:

• intercalary; intercalaris; internuncial

noun:

• dried codfish soaked in water for few days, and cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and water (Kyoto speciality)

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

noun:

• Tochū tea (high in minerals and reputed to be beneficial for weight loss and in cases of high blood pressure) ➜ 杜仲

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to crash into
• to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand)
• to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

noun:

• nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

noun:

• the same country; the same province; the said country