noun:

• cover; front (e.g. for illegal activities); magic cloak of invisibility
• Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• overlap width; margin for pasting together (e.g. two pieces of paper)
• elbowroom; leeway; room; margin; allowance; latitude

expression:

• Excuse me for interrupting you when you are so busy (formal phrase used in business letters, etc.)

noun:

• outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)

noun:

• playing to the gallery; showing off; pretence; pretense
• surface preparation (for painting, etc.); scraping a surface clean - esp. ケレン

noun:

• motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)

noun:

• "winner" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the most) - slang ➜ 割り勘負け

noun:

• "loser" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the least) - slang ➜ 割り勘勝ち

noun:

• ritual performance (usually around New Year) to pray for a successful rice harvest in the coming year - Shintō term

noun:

• regional official responsible for rice storage (under the Yamato court) - archaism
• Inagi (lowest of the eight hereditary titles) ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• property ward; special local public body which has its own property, etc. and bears the expenses for it ➜ 特別地方公共団体【とくべつちほうこうきょうだんたい】

noun:

• purity measure for gold; karat; carat; K; kt
• personality of a person born under the element of fire ➜ 金【きん】

noun:

• homa stick; stick on which prayers are written, then ritually burnt before an idol to ask for blessings - Buddhism term

noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

noun:

• Act on Payment of Relief Benefit for Victims, etc. of Crimes Committed by Aum Shinrikyo (2008)

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving temporarily; stepping out; going away for a while

noun:

• camera focusing error (on a space between two objects) ➜ 抜く【ぬく】

noun:

• partition; division; boundary; compartment
• settlement of accounts
• preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark - Sumo term
• directing; controlling; managing; taking responsibility for

noun:

• fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck - four character idiom

noun:

• official names associated with coaching licenses (105 permanent and heritable, plus those issued to select yokozuna for a single generation) - Sumo term ➜ 年寄

noun:

• megafeps (mnemonic for verbs that never precede infinitives, but rather their gerunds); mind, enjoy, give up, avoid, finish, escape, postpone, stop

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck ➜ 霊感商法

noun:

• Buddhist decoration engraved with various motifs, often made from gilt copper (e.g. for adorning the inner shrine of a temple) - Buddhism term

noun:

• komi; extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second (in go)

noun / ~の noun:

• on business; for business; business purpose