noun:

• long thin strip of dried sea-ear or paper attached to a gift

noun:

• blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to somebody else's fight

adjectival noun:

• eccentric; warped; narrow-minded; perverse; obstinate; stubborn; bigoted

noun:

• eccentricity; obstinacy; stubbornness; (a) crank

temporal noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• dawn; daybreak Antonym: 暮れ

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• end; soon after something has ended
• beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

noun:

• tent
• tabernacle
• small curtain-enclosed area (off a stage)
• Makuya (Original Gospel Movement of Japan)

noun:

• gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row

noun:

• branch; offshoot; tributary; fork; ramification (e.g. of a nerve, blood vessel, ore vein, etc.)

noun:

• snack (to have with a drink); side dish - polite language ➜ 摘み

noun:

• mouth with a protruding lower lip and jaw
• socket; receiving window; slot ［うけぐち］

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun:

• rare utensil; famous article
• famed musical instrument (e.g. a Stradivarius)
• excellent vagina; formidable vulva - vulgar

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• bottle gourd
• ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

noun:

• special version of a product with features that allow it to be used for evaluation - abbreviation - From English "evaluation chip"

noun:

• face sheet (top copy); questionnaire that asks for a demographic profile

noun:

• order; ordering
• beginning; start
• foreword; preface; introduction ➜ 序詞
• opening of a song (in gagaku or noh) ➜ 序破急

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

noun / ~の noun:

• establishing a large lead over one's competitors; breaking away (from the field)

noun:

• Cheki; brand of small instant cameras made by Fujifilm

interjection:

• check it out; take a look - From English "check it"

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

expression:

• indication that a page or site may be linked without restriction - From English "link free"

noun:

• central black dot on a go board
• Tengen era (978.11.29-983.4.15)

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine