noun:

• kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb)
• kan (obs. unit of currency)

counter:

• pieces of sushi

noun / ~する noun:

• consistency; coherence; integration
• one kan (approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb)
• one piece of sushi

noun / ~する noun:

• charge; rush; lightning attack

noun / ~する noun:

• running through; traversal

adverb:

• consistently; unchangingly; throughout - four character idiom

noun:

• arm glove; arm warmer; sleevelet
• bracelet
• leather thread on guard or pommel of a sword
• hole in the butt end of a Chinese spear

noun:

• type of hakama worn in ancient times

noun:

• unpadded kimono
• 1st day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar ［綿抜き］ - also written as 四月朔日 ➜ 綿抜の朔日

noun:

• stairwell; atrium ➜ 吹き抜け【ふきぬけ】
• streamer; pennant

noun / ~する noun:

• piercing through; penetrating; perforating
• persisting; sticking (e.g. to beliefs)

noun:

• win worth 8000 points (or, if dealer, 12000 points) - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• weighing; platform scales

noun:

• pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9) as three chows - Mahjong term

noun:

• having nothing except one's body; having empty pockets; being penniless

noun:

• win by discarding nothing but terminal and honor tiles in an otherwise drawn round - Mahjong term

noun:

• sweet potato variety (often used in shochu brewing)

noun:

• traversing horizontally; passing through laterally; running east to west

noun:

• sword hilt; decorative hilt

noun:

• crosspiece (between pillars, etc.); penetrating tie beam - Architecture term

noun / ~する noun:

• consistent; unchanging from beginning to end - four character idiom

noun:

• thimble

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword