noun:

• household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier ➜ 食封

expression / noun:

• true love; deep love; love for someone so deep that it can reach a crow perched on that person's roof

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in

noun:

• sunrise viewed from the top of a high mountain; the rising sun

noun:

• incorporating the needs of the market into a product - From English "market in"

noun:

• wrestlers with the same win-loss record at the end of a tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• sudden reversal in the tide of events; the situation taking a new turn - four character idiom

noun:

• aureole (of a Buddhist statue; surrounding the body but not the head); aureola

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings) - obscure term ➜ 上駒

noun:

• hairdresser's room in the residence of the shogun or a noble - archaism

noun:

• cutting off the head
• shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant

noun:

• pile; heap; layers (e.g. of clothing); set (e.g. of boxes); course (e.g. of stones) - esp. 重ね

counter:

• counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.) - esp. 重ね; used after a word from the "hito-futa-mi" counting system

noun:

• layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat - esp. 襲
• combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours) - esp. 襲 - abbreviation ➜ かさねの色目【かさねのいろめ】

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school ➜ 寺子屋
• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
• to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)

noun:

• 180.39 millilitres; 180.39 milliliters ➜ 合【ごう】
• 0.3306 square metres; 0.3306 square meters ➜ 合【ごう】
• one-tenth of the way (from the foot of a mountain to the top) ➜ 合【ごう】

noun:

• end; finish; stop
• bounds; limits ➜ 切りがない・切りのない
• delivery date (of a futures contract) - esp. 限り,限
• finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki); final performance of the day (in vaudeville)

suffix / counter:

• counter for slices (esp. thick slices); counter for cuts (e.g. fish, meat)

particle:

• only; just - senses 6-8 are sometimes pronounced ぎり, esp. in old-fashioned speech - usually written using kana alone ➜ っ切り【っきり】
• since; after - usu. in a negative sentence - usually written using kana alone
• remaining (in a particular state) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

particle:

• a sort of thing like; used after a phrase to modify the following noun

noun / ~する noun:

• tucking up the sleeves of a kimono with a tasuki ➜ 繦

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun:

• tie-dyeing - archaism - obscure term
• heraldic design of a square with a hole in the center - obscure term

noun:

• surface Antonym: 裏
• face (i.e. the visible side of an object)
• front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin
• outside; exterior
• appearance
• public
• first half (of an inning); top (of an inning) - Baseball term Antonym: 裏【うら】
• cover (for tatami mats, etc.)
• foreground - IT term

expression:

• a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband

noun / ~する noun:

• massage (esp. anma, a traditional form of Japanese massage)

noun:

• masseur; masseuse; massager - sensitive
• blind person (as many were traditionally massagers) - archaism - colloquialism

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• last third of a month; 21st to the last day of a month