noun:

• table; desk

counter:

• counter for tables, desks, etc. ［たく］

noun:

• offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony) ［しょく］ - Buddhism term
• tabletop incense burner ［しょく］ - abbreviation ➜ 卓香炉

noun:

• point worthy of note; highlight (e.g. in a film); thing to note
• good prospects for the future; promise

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary inspection; having a look in advance
• preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes)

noun:

• siding (on a house); clapboard; weatherboard ➜ 下見板【したみいた】

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:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu"; "ga" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "zu"; "za" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "dzu"; "da" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu"; "na" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu"; "ba" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "pu"; "pa" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

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

noun:

• loneliness; desolation

~たる adjective / ~と adverb / ~の noun:

• lonely; lonesome; dreary; desolate; deserted
• harsh (words); cutting (criticism)

~する noun:

• to separate in thought; to consider as independent

noun:

• counting "stars" to tally the score to date; how well something has gone (e.g. in terms of wins over losses) - Sumo term

noun:

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

noun:

• Artemisia (genus of a between 200 to 400 species of plants in the daisy family Asteraceae) ➜ 蓬・アルテミシア属

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

noun:

• game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ 妻黒

noun:

• booth or stall set up on the sidewalk in front of a shop or home (esp. food booths at festivals) - Kansai dialect ➜ 床店【とこみせ】・出店【でみせ】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・ピー柿

noun:

• Bureau of Onmyō; government office in charge of astronomical observations, divination and calendar making (under the ritsuryo system)

expression:

• if you are hungry, where you eat doesn't matter; manjū in the toilet [literal] - proverb ➜ まんじゅう
• hiding something good for oneself alone - idiom

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to feel uneasy; to get into a panic; to feel excited; to have one's heart beat wildly; to have a presentiment