river; stream; River; the ... river
dry riverbed; river beach
(navigable) canal; waterway
flood plain; river terrace; riverside area; area between river and river bank
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
riverbank; riverside; market on the riverbank (esp. fish market); place (for activities); venue
kappa; mythical water-dwelling creature; excellent swimmer; cucumber; cucumber sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed)
Kawachi (former province located in the east of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
Milky Way galaxy; Milky Way; the Galaxy; galactic system; galaxy
mountains and rivers; natural surroundings
glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; tough period; drought (of opportunities, jobs, etc.)
Children's Limbo; futile; unrewarding
lowly people (Edo period); eta
galactic empire (in science fiction)
puffer fish; blow fish; fugu; globefish; swellfish
large-scale, long-running TV series (esp. of period pieces produced by NHK)
heaps of bodies and streams of blood; fierce battle
river surface; surface of a river
along the river; riverside
riverbed; raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer
period of poor employment opportunities; job drought; (lit.) employment ice age
hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
to try a new venue for eating, drinking, night amusement, etc.
class A river; specified waterways of special importance protected by the government
kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)
something easy to do; cinch
Milky Way; luminous band corresponding to the plane of the galaxy
beggar; derelict; player; actor; actress
being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one); know-it-all manner
guardian deity of rivers; river god
10^52 (or 10^56); innumerable
roman-fleuve; long novel; epic novel
otter (Lutra lutra); Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)
kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature)
Sanzu River (Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx)
anyone can make a mistake; even Homer sometimes nods
Yellow River civilization; Huang civilization; cradle of Chinese civilization
destroy a country, but its mountains and rivers remain; the land outlasts the king
something easy to do; cinch; (lit.) a kappa's fart
river breaking through (its dikes)
kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature); river god
Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)
actors; players; (lit.) riverbank beggars
small and medium-sized rivers
Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture
Yangtze and Yellow rivers; large river
destroy a country, but its mountains and rivers remain; the land outlasts the king
Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)
bamboo growing along a river bank; Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii); (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) the life of a prostitute
the road to paradise is a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed)
rock pigeon (Columba livia); rock dove
kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature)
clearing of the river water
Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes); Japanese puffer; tiger puffer
waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
freshwater minnow; pale chub (Zacco platypus)
large pink (Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus)
glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk
hooking backward counter throw; one-leg entanglement (judo)
a fish out of water; (lit.) a kappa up on land
narrative style of Bon dance song from eastern Osaka (often with improvised lyrics)
kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)
cucumber sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed); cucumber makizushi
cucumber sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed); cucumber makizushi
Chinese puffer (Takifugu chinensis)
pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture
Oriental greenfinch (Carduelis sinica)
bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus); boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae); trunkfish
great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus); bigeye jack; great trevally; six-banded trevally; dusky jack
broad-winged damselfly (of family Calopterygidae)
purple puffer (Takifugu porphyreus)
brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
Takifugu snyderi (species of pufferfish)
Takifugu snyderi (species of pufferfish)
grass puffer (Takifugu niphobles)
glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk
discarded tiles; discards
Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephala)
honey is sweet, but the bee stings; (lit.) I want to eat fugu, (but) I value my life
port at the mouth of a river
crescentic lake; oxbow lake; billabong
anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon)
anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon)
starry toado (pufferfish, Arothron firmamentum)
glacial striae; glacial striations; glacial grooves
catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
red-eyed puffer (Takifugu chrysops)
natural damming (of a river due to landslide, etc.)
starburst galaxy; galaxy in the process of an exceptionally high rate of star formation
starburst galaxy; galaxy in the process of an exceptionally high rate of star formation
glacial lake outburst flood
something that looks difficult but actually isn't; swimming in a cold lake during mid-winter seems difficult, but it's nothing to a kappa
win on the last discard of a round
everything is preordained
the events of today are destined by the past; even drawing water from the same river reveals a bond from a former life; even chance relationships can be attributed to the working of fate
intermittent river; intermittent stream
perennial river; perennial stream; permanent river
brown dipper (Cinclus pallasii)
white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
European greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
capillary artemisia (Artemisia capillaris); yin-chen wormwood
capillary artemisia (Artemisia capillaris); yin-chen wormwood
Artemisia apiacea (species of artemisia)
pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
basketfish (Kentrocapros aculeatus)
Sarcocheilichthys variegatus variegatus (subspecies of cyprinid)
map puffer (Arothron mappa)
yellowfin puffer (Takifugu xanthopterus)
green spotted puffer (Tetraodon nigroviridis)
longhorn cowfish (Lactoria cornuta)
pear puffer (Takifugu vermicularis)
Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris)
baiji (Lipotes vexillifer); Chinese river dolphin; Yangtze dolphin
finepatterned puffer (Takifugu poecilonotus)
panther puffer (Takifugu pardalis)
slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis); oblong sunfish
white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus)