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山の手, 山手, やまのて
See 下町・1, See 山手・2
1. hilly section of a city (usu. upscale residential)
See 下町・したまち・2
2. Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds)
See 山手・やまて・1
3. place near the mountains
山の幸, やまのさち
Expression, See 海の幸
food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.), fruits of the land
ほら、今日は海の幸だったから明日は山の幸とかさ、取りに行こうよっ。
他山の石, たざんのいし
See 他山の石以て玉を攻むべし, Idiomatic expression
lesson learned from someone's else mistake, object lesson, food for thought, stones from other mountains (can be used to polish one's own gems)
他山の石とする。
やまのかみ, 山の神, ヤマノカミ
Only やまのかみ, Expression
1. mountain god
Humorous term
2. one's wife (esp. a nagging wife)
Usually in kana
3. roughskin sculpin (Trachidermus fasciatus)
枯れ木も山の賑わい, 枯れ木も山のにぎわい, かれきもやまのにぎわい
Expression, Proverb
half a loaf is better than none, even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain
動かざること山の如し, うごかざることやまのごとし
Expression
in being immobile be like a mountain (from Sun Tzu), being imperturbable, immobile like a mountain (from laziness, etc.)
他山の石以て玉を攻むべし, たざんのいしもってたまをおさむべし
Expression, See 他山の石, Proverb
one should learn from other's mistakes, stones from other mountains can be used to polish one's own gems
海の物とも山の物とも判らない, うみのものともやまのものともわからない
Expression, Idiomatic expression
neither fish nor fowl, hard-to-predict
海のものとも山のものともつかない, 海の物とも山の物ともつかない, うみのものともやまのものともつかない
Expression, Idiomatic expression
neither fish nor fowl, hard to predict, up in the air, unclear