noun:

• Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)

noun:

• primness; prim person ［澄まし・清まし・清し・洗］ ➜ お澄まし
• clear soup - abbreviation ➜ すまし汁
• water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.) ［澄まし・清まし・清し・洗］

expression:

• mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)

noun:

• kabusecha; mild green tea which has been lightly screened from sunlight for 1-3 weeks before picking ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】

noun:

• various containers; miscellaneous receptacles
• small wooden plate on which offerings for a Shinto home shine are placed

noun:

• bust (measurement)
• breasts; bosom
• upper half of the body (esp. statue or portrait); bust ➜ 上半身【じょうはんしん】・半身像【はんしんぞう】

noun:

• break (in the weather, esp. rain or snow); interval of clear weather
• lightheartedness

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• fluttering (esp. of thick or heavy material) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• piece of dangling cloth, paper, metal, etc. - onomatopoeia

noun:

• hustler; entrepreneur; go-getter
• (skilled or professional) pool player; billiard player
• swindler; con man

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• weak-willed; lacking a purpose; lacking will power to be patient, purposeful, or resolute - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last - four character idiom

noun:

• pāramitā; perfection; perfection of Buddhist practices or attaining enlightenment ［はらみつ］ - Buddhism term ➜ 波羅蜜多
• jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• entry into the sanctum of a shrine or temple; access to the imperial court

noun:

• person whose presence is unwelcome, unnecessary or a nuisance; fifth wheel; third wheel; interloper

noun:

• karamon; large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle) ➜ 唐破風

noun / ~する noun:

• presenting a hand-copied sutra to a temple (or money, etc. in its place) ➜ 写経

noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts

noun:

• configuration (e.g. of a computer or file); user preferences; system environment; environment setting - IT term

noun:

• white dragon tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• shaved pubic area; person with little or no pubic hair - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to strip a person of all his or her clothes
• to steal someone blind - slang

noun:

• parallel marker (particle used to join two or more words, i.e. "to", "ya") - Linguistics term

noun:

• parallel marker (particle used to join two or more words, i.e. "to", "ya") - Linguistics term ➜ 並立助詞

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

suffix:

• honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status - honorific language

prefix:

• august (in ref. to the emperor or the gods); imperial; divine - honorific language