adverb / ~と adverb:

• (dragging a large or heavy item) slowly - onomatopoeia
• (falling) little by little; (slipping) gradually; (drawing back) slowly; with a slither - onomatopoeia
• on and on; while putting off; slovenly; interminably - onomatopoeia
• with a slurp; with a sniffle - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• loose; lax; inconclusive; unresolved - onomatopoeia

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

noun:

• baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood - Buddhism term
• baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• pouring water onto a gravestone - Buddhism term
• teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to offer a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god

noun:

• hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handgrip

noun:

• crown (of a watch); stem
• cannon (of a bell)

noun:

• rumour of a love affair; talk of a romance

noun:

• switch (of a railroad); points (of a railway) ➜ ポイント

noun:

• semantic content (of a term); meaning (of a sentence) - Linguistics term

noun:

• normalization (of a social problem, of a situation, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• lacking a portfolio (of a minister of state, etc.)

noun:

• tread (of a wheel); step (of a stair)

~と adverb:

• up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
• casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• young and energetic; up-and-coming; new and excellent; newly produced; up-and-comer

noun:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun:

• Japanese common squid; Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) ➜ 鯣烏賊
• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta) ➜ 甲烏賊
• Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica) ➜ 尻焼烏賊

noun:

• go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese ➜ 漢音【かんおん】・唐音【とうおん】・呉【ご】

noun:

• senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest) - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・神主
• grasshopper; locust - obscure term

adverb:

• noisily; clamorously; boisterously - onomatopoeia
• incessantly (complaining, pestering, etc.); going on and on; making a fuss (of something); playing up - onomatopoeia
• loudly (crying); wailing; bawling; howling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• macrobiotics; prevention and cure of disease through diet (as expounded by Sagen Ishizuka (1850-1909))
• taking nourishing food; eating a balanced diet - abbreviation ➜ 食養生【しょくようじょう】
• dietetics ➜ 食事療法学

noun:

• western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)

noun:

• margined coralfish (Chelmon marginalis); Western beaked butterflyfish; Willemawillum

noun:

• western side house (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)
• Western carrot cultivars ➜ 人参

noun:

• doctor practising Western medicine (during the Edo period) ➜ 漢方医