noun:

• tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea
• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• dangling heavily; swaying to and fro; swinging - onomatopoeia
• strolling; rambling; roaming; wandering - onomatopoeia
• idly; lazily; leisurely; aimlessly - onomatopoeia
• persisting (of an illness) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• dish of vegetables, konnyaku, etc. simmered in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone - Food term

noun:

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

noun:

• sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

noun:

• Ama no Mihashira; the heavenly pillar on Onokoro Island, around which Izanagi and Izanami are said to have wed - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

expression / noun:

• omoiyari yosan; appreciation payment; financial support towards welfare benefits and allowances of U.S. forces stationed in Japan

noun:

• narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood strung together that were used to write on in ancient times ➜ 竹簡

noun:

• Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties

noun:

• pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)

noun:

• drunken driving; driving while intoxicated; drinking and driving

noun:

• every single word and phrase; word by word - four character idiom

noun:

• box; case; chest; package; pack; crate
• car (of a train, etc.)
• shamisen case; shamisen
• public building; community building - often written as ハコ - colloquialism ➜ 箱物
• man who carries a geisha's shamisen - archaism ➜ 箱屋
• receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces) - archaism

suffix / counter:

• counter for boxes (or boxed objects)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• inflection of words (e.g. declension of nouns and conjugation of verbs) - Linguistics term

noun:

• China and the Soviet Union ➜ ソ連【ソれん】

prefix:

• Sino-Soviet; Soviet-Chinese ➜ 中ソ国境紛争【ちゅうソこっきょうふんそう】

noun:

• Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) ➜ 三名山

noun:

• Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三名山

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三霊山【にほんさんれいざん】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to wait and see; to sit on the fence; to be noncommittal ➜ 日和見

godan ~る verb:

• to hit and break open; to crush; to smash - colloquialism

noun:

• three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)