noun:

• reader (person)
• person who reads the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 取り手
• composer (of a poem) - also written as 詠み手 ➜ 詠み手【よみて】

noun:

• happi coat (esp. one designed in a western style); happy coat ➜ 法被

noun / ~の noun:

• being very popular; being in great demand

noun:

• octopus dried on skewers

noun:

• outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo - abbreviation ➜ 外様大名
• outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group

noun:

• black suit; mourning clothes
• black-suited staff member (e.g. in restaurant, sex establishment, etc.)

noun:

• resin
• (tobacco) resin; tar; nicotine
• sleep (in one's eyes, i.e. eye mucus)

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れの舞台

noun:

• bumpy tiles set in public areas to mark the path for the blind

adjectival noun / noun:

• contrary to one's wishes; gone awry; gone amiss
• short of money; in financial difficulty

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• Hayagriva (manifestation of Avalokitesvara with an ornament in the shape of a horse's head) - Buddhism term ➜ 観世音

noun:

• ritsuryo system (ancient East Asian system of centralized governance; in Japan: esp. 7th-10th century) ➜ 律令

noun:

• dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) ➜ 夜明け

noun:

• being on stage without respite; going out or being in attendance continuously

noun:

• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); cuttlefish (any species in the family Sepiidae)

~の noun / noun:

• attractive to men; in a style (appearance, look, etc.) that men fall for

noun:

• amorous woman

noun:

• widow's peak; hairline that grows to a point in the middle of the forehead

noun:

• non-smokers' rights; right for nonsmokers to not be exposed to smoking in public space

noun:

• knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; fetters
• arrest
• rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)

noun:

• partner (esp. in manzai); companion ［相方］ ➜ 漫才
• partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• match-up between wrestlers from different divisions who will probably 'switch' divisions in new ranking - Sumo term

noun:

• ti; si; 7th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• brimming with fighting spirit; being strong in the will to fight; burning with combativeness - four character idiom

noun:

• there being no use in arguing (about it); being stone-deaf to someone's appeals - four character idiom