noun:

• western style

noun:

• (western) paper

noun:

• Western philosopher

noun:

• Western hairdressing

noun:

• western suburb - obscure term

noun:

• western language

noun:

• Western medicine ➜ 東洋医学

noun:

• Western arithmetic

noun:

• Western knife Antonym: 和包丁

noun:

• Western music

noun:

• life; life force - sometimes written as 生命 ➜ 生命
• lifetime; lifespan
• most important thing; foundation; core
• paired tattoos of the "life" kanji on the upper arms of a man and woman (indicating unwavering love) - archaism
• fate; destiny; karma - archaism

noun:

• beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather

noun:

• advertising the excellence of one's wares; boasting; self-advertisement
• statement of the virtues of a medicine; description of the virtues of a drug ➜ 効能書き【こうのうがき】

noun:

• person in charge of music (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 立方【たちかた】
• person singing ballads (in noh)
• coast (esp. as seen from the water); shore
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area - archaism

noun:

• Akita ranga; short-lived school of Western-style painting that originated in the Akita feudal domain in the mid Edo period

noun / suffix noun:

• charge; cost; price
• generation; age; reign
• era - Geology term
• a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone) - after someone's name or title
• used after a phone number to indicate that it is a switchboard number ➜ 代表電話番号

counter:

• counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.
• counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)
• proxy application company - abbreviation ➜ 代理申請会社

noun:

• pronoun - used in dictionaries, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 代名詞

noun:

• jar; pot; vase
• dice cup
• depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)
• target (when aiming an arrow) - archaism
• (figurative) bull's-eye - usually written using kana alone ➜ 思うつぼ
• key point (of a conversation, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
• acupuncture point; moxibustion point - usually written using kana alone
• nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.) - often ツボ - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• studying two lines together (as a major and a minor)

expression / noun:

• well-matched contest; fight between a dragon and a tiger [literal]

noun:

• "pocket Hello Kitty" that combines a pedometer and a tamagotchi - abbreviation

noun:

• Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; ivy morning glory
• any funnel shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); funnel-shaped urinal

expression:

• (in) each of the houses of the Japanese parliament

noun:

• cultivar of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
• cultivar of mulberry

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom