noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

noun:

• kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun

expression / noun:

• coming to nothing ➜ 水泡
• bubble on the surface of water
• something that is short-lived

noun:

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

expression:

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

expression:

• right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be extremely thorough, focusing on even the finest of details

expression:

• on such good terms as to know what each other is thinking - apparently from 通過の仲 - idiom

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh - abbreviation ➜ 半跏趺坐

noun:

• farrier (person who fits foot irons on horses and cows); hoof (care) specialist

noun:

• Shuten-dōji; mythical Japanese oni (demon) who lived on Mt. Ōe

noun:

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; CITES

noun:

• lock; tuft; tassel; feathers (i.e. fringe of hair on the legs); feathering; penicil

noun:

• raigan (Omphalia lapidescens); parasitic fungus which grows on bamboo, used in Chinese medicine

noun:

• fashion not created by designers but based on street styles - From English "anonymous fashion"

noun:

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

noun:

• hot rice served with tenkasu and tempura dipping sauce on top - Food term ➜ 天かす

noun:

• playing on equal terms; having no handicap for either player - Shōgi term ➜ 平手
• being evenly matched - Shōgi term

noun:

• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

noun:

• rat guard; disk of wood on storehouse pillars, ropes, etc.

numeric:

• one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme)

noun:

• old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)

noun:

• car painted with anime characters; painful car (because some people consider it painful to look at) [literal] - colloquialism - humorous term ➜ オタ車・ヲタ車
• Italian car; European car ［イタ車］ - original meaning - abbreviation

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to profit at someone else's expense; to rob Peter to pay Paul; to take risks with other people's money - idiom ➜ 他人のふんどしで相撲を取る【たにんのふんどしですもうをとる】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be prolonged; to drag on

adverb:

• exactly; just; precisely - onomatopoeia ➜ かっきり
• punctually; exactly on time - onomatopoeia ➜ かっきり