noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

noun:

• program picture (i.e. film cheaply and quickly produced as a lesser attraction in a double bill); programme picture; B-movie

noun:

• Hemiscyllium (genus of longtail carpet sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with short snouts, nostrils at the tip, and elevated eyes and supraorbital ridges)

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

suffix:

• separation from; loss of interest in; independence of; distancing (of oneself) from; disillusionment with; alienation from (something) ［ばなれ］

prefix:

• detached (dwelling, room) ［はなれ］ ➜ 離れ座敷

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to censure; to criticize; to criticise; to rebuke; to defy; to disobey - archaism
• to fashion after; to make in the form of; to imitate - archaism

noun:

• one's heart
• at one's discretion; in one's hands

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be absorbed in; to devote oneself (to); to give oneself over (to)

expression / noun:

• the harmonizing, mentally and physically, of two parties engaged in an activity; singing from the same hymn-sheet; dancing to the same beat - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to forcefully open up a hole (in a wall, etc.)
• to speak frankly, holding nothing back ➜ 打ち明ける【うちあける】
• to throw out (everything inside)

noun:

• sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth) ➜ 炬燵

expression:

• being so content that one would not mind dying; one can now rest in peace; one ought to be contented with what has been accomplished - idiom

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

adjective:

• fast; quick; hasty; brisk - esp. 速い, 疾い, 捷い
• early (in the day, etc.); premature - esp. 早い
• (too) soon; not yet; (too) early - esp. 早い
• easy; simple; quick - esp. 早い ➜ 手っ取り早い

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• still; as before ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• even so; either way; after all; nonetheless; in any event; all the same ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• as expected ➜ 矢張り【やはり】

noun / ~の noun:

• reflection; image; picture (e.g. on a television); shot
• video; film; footage; clip; video recording
• image in one's mind; mental picture

~する noun:

• to keep; to put aside (for somebody); to keep possession (usu. the ball in sports); to hold one's service (tennis)

noun:

• quipu; quippu

noun:

• dance hall; dance floor
• landing (stairs)
• leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation; cooling-off period; lull; plateau

noun:

• the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings

noun:

• chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and serve on rice - Food term

noun:

• Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)
• Rape of Nanking (1937); Nanking Massacre ➜ 南京大虐殺

noun:

• extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge) ➜ 枢【くるる】