elephant / ivory / image / shape / figure

単身赴任: a job transfer that takes an employee away from their family for an extended period of time

単身赴任: move away from one's family for work

simple / alone / single

unit of teaching; curriculum unit

and; and then; and therefore / so; if so; as it is; in that way / however; but / a certain thing; a sort of thing

indicates a state (no specific semantic content)

adnominal of 然り (shikari, “to be like so, to be thus”)

(archaic, now poetic) farewell; goodbye

but (literary form)