noun:

• (hard) candy; toffee - Food term
• rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc. - Food term
• amber; yellowish-brown - abbreviation ➜ 飴色

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to think hard about (something that one doesn't know much of); to rack one's brain

noun / ~の noun:

• living flesh; flesh and blood
• physical body of Buddha or a bodhisattva ［しょうじん］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• head of a pipe, incl. the bowl and stem attachment
• neck; head - colloquialism

noun:

• temple kitchen; monastery kitchen - Buddhism term
• quarters of a head priest (and his family) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ancient soldier's hat
• common soldier - abbreviation ➜ 陣笠連
• rank and file (of a political party) - abbreviation ➜ 陣笠連

noun:

• integrated science (i.e. collaboration of various sciences and arts); (a) synthetic science

noun:

• a doubt that lurks in one's soul and that cannot be resolved

expression:

• children are a bond between husband and wife; children hold marriages together - proverb

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• accent (in French; acute, grave, and circumflex) - From French
• accent (on a syllable, word); stress ➜ アクセント

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings) - obscure term ➜ 上駒

expression:

• know your enemy, know thyself, and you shall not fear a hundred battles - proverb

expression:

• knowing what is right and not doing it is a want of courage - proverb

expression:

• know your enemy, know thyself, and you shall not fear a hundred battles - proverb ➜ 敵を知り己を知れば百戦危うからず

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in a mess; to have things scattered here and there

noun:

• cutting off the head
• shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• hakapik; iron hammer and hook mounted on a long wooden pole used for killing seals - From Norwegian

expression:

• cute, white, oval face (appearing as if someone glued eyes and a nose on an egg) - obscure term

noun:

• round plaque carrying the image of a Buddha (usually hammered from behind) used in temples and shrines

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇汁

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇鍋

noun:

• thick malt syrup poured into boiling water and sprinkled with cinnamon (used as a refreshing summer drink) - Food term ➜ 水飴・冷やし飴