noun:

• small purification wand - archaism
• thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods) ➜ 切麻

noun:

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

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

pre-noun adjectival:

• Mother (as in Mother Earth, Mother Nature, etc.) ➜ 母なる自然

expression / ichidan verb:

• to act (as); to hold an office; to play the part (of)

noun:

• one clap
• one beat
• one mora (taken as a unit of time)

noun:

• normal rice (as opposed to mochi rice); non-sticky rice ➜ 粳【うる】

expression:

• month after month; as the months go by; with each passing month

adjectival noun / adverb / ~の noun:

• as one would expect
• still; all the same
• even... (e.g. "even a genius...") - as さすがの〜も

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; lead; acting as guide
• guide; primer; guidebook; handbook; manual
• influence; connections; introduction; good offices

adverbial noun / noun:

• non-leap year
• normal year (esp. as pertains to weather patterns, vegetative growth, harvest yields, etc.)

noun:

• legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine) ➜ 側室・本妻
• room for receiving guests ➜ 表座敷【おもてざしき】
• heir; successor - obscure term

noun:

• avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha) - Buddhism term
• Avatamska sutra - abbreviation ➜ 華厳経
• Kegon (sect of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 華厳宗

noun / ~する noun:

• kiss - colloquialism

noun / ~と adverb:

• squeak (as in the sound made by mice)
• sound of liquid being sucked up

noun:

• Feudal period (characterized by the rule of the shogunate as opposed to emperor, 1185-1867 CE) ➜ 王朝時代

noun:

• changing the world; turning the tide
• torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)

noun:

• crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono); figured habutae

noun:

• too many options making selection difficult; truth being hard to find as paths to it proliferate - four character idiom

expression / adjectival noun:

• triumphant (over a mediocre achievement); boastful; as if one had grabbed a demon by the neck [literal]

noun:

• spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season - four character idiom

noun:

• sambhogakaya (reward body, form taken by a buddha after completing its role as a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term ➜ 三身

noun:

• large ball; giant ball (e.g. as pushed by competing teams in a school sports day)

noun:

• Loxodon (genus containing the sliteye shark as its only member in the family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門

noun:

• female cook; kitchenmaid
• woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses - archaism