noun:

• obsolete word; old proverb; ancient (Japanese) language

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal] - idiom

noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)

noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore) ➜ 轆轤首

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sika deer and maple leaves (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal]

noun:

• var. of folksong; var. of koto or shamisen music; medley of (Japanese) songs

noun:

• brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus)
• Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis) ➜ 石斑魚
• Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster) - colloquialism ➜ 井守
• dysentery - colloquialism ➜ 赤痢

noun:

• bamboo growing along a river bank
• Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• prostitute; the life of a prostitute - archaism

noun:

• palace
• tonic (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women) - abbreviation ➜ 宮刑

noun / suffix noun:

• zodiacal sign ➜ 十二宮

noun:

• song ［歌・唄］ - 唄 is primarily used for shamisen songs
• classical Japanese poetry (esp. tanka) ［歌］ ➜ 短歌
• modern poetry ［歌・詩］

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

noun:

• China and Japan
• Chinese and Japanese (languages)
• Chinese Character-Japanese dictionary - abbreviation ➜ 漢和辞典

noun:

• small chrysanthemum
• small low grade piece of japanese paper used as a kettle rest or as a tissue - obscure term
• paper handed as a means of congratulations in a red light district - obscure term

noun:

• Chinese-style low dining table ➜ 卓袱台
• Japanese-Chinese cuisine, served family-style (large dishes, diners help themselves), specialty of Nagasaki Chinese style low dining table - abbreviation ➜ 卓袱料理
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - often 志っぽく - Kansai dialect ➜ お亀【おかめ】

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perversity; perverse person; contrary person; contrarian

noun:

• antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore
• demon under the feet of temple guardian statues

noun:

• willow-leaf arrowhead ［やないば・やなぎば］
• part of a Japanese stirrup ［やないば・やなぎば］
• willow leaf ［やなぎば・りゅうよう］ - original, literal meaning

noun:

• six feet ［六尺］
• traditional Japanese G-string for men ［六尺］ - abbreviation ➜ 六尺褌
• palanquin bearer - esp. 陸尺

noun:

• legendary monster resembling a flying squirrel
• Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys) - orig. meaning ➜ ムササビ
• Japanese dish prepared with cooked fish and chicken - esp. 野衾 - Food term

noun:

• thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters) ➜ 篠竹【しのだけ】
• Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes) ［しの］ - abbreviation ➜ 篠笛
• sliver (strand of loose fibers) ［しの］

noun:

• fried finely minced daikon, great burdock, carrot and shiitake mushrooms wrapped with crumbled tofu in dried beancurd and deep-fried
• Japanese tofu and vegetable chowder - abbreviation ➜ 巻繊汁
• black soybean sprouts fried in sesame seed oil wrapped in dried beancurd and stewed - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• quarter
• someone with one non-Japanese grandparent ➜ ハーフ
• quota - esp. クォータ and クオータ

noun:

• trout - obscure term
• Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis) ［はらあか］
• Nibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii) ［はらか］

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun:

• speech; tongue; talk; eloquence ［弁・辯］

suffix noun:

• dialect; brogue; accent ［弁・辯］

noun:

• bento; Japanese box lunch ［弁・辨］ - abbreviation ➜ 弁当【べんとう】
• petal ［弁・瓣］ ➜ 花弁【はなびら】

noun / ~の noun:

• valve ［弁・瓣］

noun:

• Oversight Department; division of the daijokan under the ritsuryo system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices ［弁・辨］ ➜ 太政官・弁官