noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

noun:

• being two sides of the same coin; being the same (while appearing different)

expression:

• Very sincerely yours ➜ 不一

~の noun / noun:

• peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing

noun:

• locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to use properly; to use (different things) for different purposes

noun:

• mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae) ➜ 銭葵・冬葵
• Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger) ➜ 二葉葵
• hollyhock - hollyhocks (genus Alcea) are part of the mallow family ➜ 立葵

noun:

• Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan) - archaism ➜ 篠竹【すずたけ】
• shoots of this plant

noun:

• book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer) ➜ ブックカバー

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; to set a sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - idiom ➜ 門前雀羅【もんぜんじゃくら】

noun:

• Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama) ➜ 稲魂
• Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
• fox (said to be messengers of Inari) ➜ 狐
• fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes) ➜ 油揚げ
• inarizushi - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ いなり寿司

noun:

• piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood

expression / ichidan verb:

• to withdraw from a society; to quit an association; to give up one's membership of a society

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

noun / ~する noun:

• preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; inducement to stay
• being stranded; grounding
• level dyeing ［足留め・足留］

expression / noun:

• pine shoot pulled out during "ne-no-hi-no-asobi" ➜ 子の日の遊び

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• feeling sick; feeling queasy; feeling nauseated - onomatopoeia
• being angry; being offended; being disgusted - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• deficit; shortage; loss
• being partially broken; being partially missing; being partially removed

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dump (a load of something)
• to throw from a height; to throw downwards

noun / ~する noun:

• letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿

noun:

• leek (edible plant, Allium porrum)
• chive (edible plant, Allium schoenoprasum)

noun:

• even pitch; accentless pitch; Japanese pitch accent pattern with no drop from high to low pitch

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

noun:

• the skin (of a human being)
• warmth of the skin; body warmth

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods