content-free chat; idle gossip
well curb; well kerb; family crest design based on a square wooden well curb
person who is ignorant of the real world; (lit.) frog in a well
(arch.) sky; cloud; distant place; high place; imperial court
Fukui prefecture (Hokuriku area)
well digging; well digger
well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends; pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses; number sign; hash
Yoshino cherry (Prunus yedoensis)
a well equipped with a pulley for drawing water
gravity well (e.g. of a planet)
newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)
dam; weir; barrier; sluice
the frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean
artesian well; tapped well
well curb of a round well
pool for soaking seed rice before planting
eternal well (i.e. one that never runs dry)
Tarui accent, used in the Kinki region and parts of Hokuriku
to fail to make timely preparations; (lit.) to not dig a well until one is thirsty
to fail to make timely preparations; (lit.) to not dig a well until one is thirsty
Pheropsophus jessoensis (species of bombardier beetle)
caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
Anderson's crocodile newt (Echinotriton andersoni); Anderson's newt; Ryukyu spiny newt; Japanese warty newt
rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa)
Takaida Station (Higashiōsaka)