noun:

• old maid (card game)
• living without one's mother-in-law - slang

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

noun:

• horse native to Hokkaido
• person born and raised in Hokkaido

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to get up (e.g. from bed)
• to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life

noun:

• riverbed ［かしょう・かわどこ］
• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer ［かわどこ・かわゆか・ゆか］

noun:

• meat substitute; meat analogue
• cheaper meat used in place of beef or pork

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to wrestle with; to contest an issue
• to take part in sumo

noun:

• bed hair; hair disarranged during sleep
• habit of moving around in one's sleep; sleeping habit

noun:

• laying out (e.g. ground plan, garden); layout
• taking space (Go); obtaining land; gaining territory
• training done in one's own stable - Sumo term
• (police) legwork - abbreviation ➜ 地取り捜査

noun:

• dripping; drop; trickle
• water trickling from moss, rocks, or cliffs in the summer

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan - sensitive

noun:

• community life; local life; regional life
• integration in the community; living in the local community (social work)

noun / ~の noun:

• undesirable friend; bad company; bad companion; bad influence ➜ 良友
• partner in crime (i.e. good friend); close friend; buddy

noun:

• partitioned lidded wooden lunchbox
• food served in such a box

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to face each other; to be opposite one another
• to be in opposition; to conflict

noun:

• keeper of imperial archives
• worker skilled in the brewing of sake or soy sauce

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki ➜ 鮑結び
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

ichidan verb:

• to look afar
• to look at something while absorbed in reverie; to look at something while absorbed in one's thoughts

noun:

• short roughly woven fence - usu. not 間狭 - archaism
• divider between boxes (i.e. for box seats) in a theatre, etc.

noun:

• partition board; plank used as a partition
• board used in a ship to prevent the cargo from moving around

noun:

• progressive form - Linguistics term
• in progress (e.g. of a project)

noun:

• Lorelei (Loreley); Rhine maiden who lured sailors to their doom
• rock in the Rhine

noun / ~する noun:

• going along with something; following the crowd
• treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner

noun:

• blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake

expression:

• fools rush in - abbreviation ➜ 盲蛇に怖じず