to go through severe hardships

Alternative spelling of 水澄まし (“whirligig beetle”)

a whirligig beetle / Synonym of 飴棒 (amenbo, “water strider”)

a water spider

(biochemistry) albumin

the fourteenth chapter of The Tale of Genji

a dolphin erected as a daybeacon or daymark: a navigational marker indicating the bounds of a water channel

fire and water / bitterness, suffering; an agony akin to burning and drowning / a violent force; a force similar to conflagration or flood

standing by and watching as someone dies, without offering help / (figuratively) to neglect a person having difficult circumstances and not assist him or her

tutelary deities of the hearth