noun:

• ambrosia (drink conferring immortality)
• drink used as an offering (to the gods)

noun:

• successive generations
• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - abbreviation ➜ 譜代大名

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to surpass; to outdo; to excel; to stand out; to be outstanding; to be preeminent ➜ 抜きん出る【ぬきんでる】
• to tower above (the surrounding landscape) ➜ 抜きん出る【ぬきんでる】

noun:

• large jewel; string of jewels - archaism
• Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 勾玉・三種の神器

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get used to one's work; to become accustomed to one's position
• to be at home (on the stage)

noun:

• Tuesday - abbreviation ➜ 火曜
• fire (second of the five elements) ➜ 五行

noun:

• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (1869-1871 CE) ［だんじょうだい］
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• male Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea) - colloquialism ➜ 精霊飛蝗
• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) - obsolete term ➜ 精霊飛蝗擬

noun:

• bequest; relic

~の noun:

• cherished (by the deceased); treasured

noun:

• natural gifts
• Tenju era (of the Southern Court) (1375.5.27-1381.2.10)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bend (with great force); to twist; to wrench
• to distort (the truth)

noun:

• large cloth sack
• baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

noun:

• Thursday - abbreviation ➜ 木曜
• wood (first of the five elements) ➜ 五行

noun:

• linen kariginu - archaism ➜ 狩衣
• (during the Edo period) plain kariginu

noun:

• Ministry of Justice (1869-1871 CE) ［ぎょうぶしょう］
• Ministry of Justice (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• provincial governor's office - archaism ➜ 国司
• provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period) - abbreviation ➜ 国衙領

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be launched (e.g. rocket); to lift off
• to be washed up (on the shore)

noun:

• large stone; boulder
• large group of stones (in the game of go)

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)

noun:

• right action - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 八正道
• correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha) ➜ 正定業

noun / ~する noun:

• house-sitting; house-sitter ➜ 留守番

noun:

• caretaker or keeper (official post in the Edo era)

noun:

• opening credits; title sequence - freq. read オープニング - abbreviation
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 主題歌

noun:

• incorporating; inserting
• nesting (e.g. of matryoshka dolls); nest
• square offering tray made of unvarnished wood (three per nested set)
• latticed ceiling - abbreviation - Architecture term ➜ 組み入れ天井

noun:

• bright red tinged with yellow
• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region) ➜ 川越芋

noun:

• vegetables; (edible) greens
• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)