noun / adjectival noun:

• without preparation; off the cuff; abrupt; without warning ➜ ぶっつけ本番

adjectival noun / noun:

• unreserved; without restraint; frank; blunt; direct

noun:

• beginning; start; outset

noun / suffix noun:

• stand; rack; table; bench; podium; pedestal; platform; stage
• support; holder; rack

counter:

• counter for machines, incl. vehicles

noun:

• setting (e.g. in jewellery)

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• level (e.g. price level); range (e.g. after physical units); period (of time, e.g. a decade of one's life) ➜ 代【だい】・代【だい】

noun:

• elevated area
• viewing platform
• dish tray ➜ 台盤
• meal - archaism
• tall building; tower - archaism ➜ 高殿

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to; to stick to; to lie flat (e.g. on the ground)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to whip; to lash; to give the rod; to spur on; to encourage

noun:

• the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye) - Buddhism term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to abuse; to exploit to the full; to give free rein to

godan ~う verb:

• to mishear; to fail to catch
• to miss (the chance to hear)

noun:

• model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.)
• type; style; pattern - がた when a suffix ➜ 朝型
• mold (mould); template; model
• kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
• form (i.e. customary procedure)
• size (i.e. clothing, shoes)
• inch (in diagonal display size)
• (taxonomical) form - obscure term ➜ 品種

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to place (in relation to the whole); to rank; to position; to locate

noun:

• voluntary insurance; optional insurance; extra insurance; vehicle insurance in addition to the basic mandatory insurance ➜ 強制保険

adjectival noun / noun:

• too many; too much; excessive; superfluous; superabundant; extra; spare; surplus - often as 余計に

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• unnecessary; needless; uncalled-for; otiose

adverb:

• abundantly; excessively; needlessly; all the more

noun / ~する noun:

• passing on to the next life - Buddhism term
• death
• giving up a struggle; submission
• being at one's wits' end; being flummoxed
• coercion

noun:

• divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)
• kamikaze ［かみかぜ］

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards

noun:

• niche or alcove for an image
• (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

adverb:

• extremely cold feeling that makes one feel numb; sharp pain that is almost numbing - onomatopoeia
• heartrending; touching the heart

noun:

• slotted dome cast iron grill for preparing the Genghis Khan dish
• Japanese mutton and vegetable dish ➜ ジンギス汗料理

expression:

• you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught [literal] - proverb

noun:

• critical argument laden with value judgment, where an indirect cause, often trivial, is made to appear as leading to the effect

noun:

• blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology)
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 四神

noun:

• kitchen with a small counter for eating, usu. allowing a view into the living and dining rooms - From English "counter kitchen"

noun:

• cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith ➜ 寺請制度

noun:

• cloudy sky that appears when the migrating birds that stayed for winter and autumn in Japan leave to go north