noun:

• sink (e.g. kitchen)

~の noun / noun:

• cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.)

noun:

• washing area in a Japanese-style bath
• back-washing service (in a public bath)
• floating (something on water); setting adrift; washing away

noun:

• bird's egg (esp. a chicken egg)
• chick; baby bird (esp. a baby chicken)
• eggshell-colored traditional Japanese paper made primarily of Diplomorpha sikokiana fibres (high-quality, glossy) - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子紙
• eggshell (colour) - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子色
• red and white oval rice cakes - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子餅

noun:

• aphid; plant louse
• cockroach - Kansai dialect ➜ ゴキブリ
• Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus) - obscure term ➜ 油蝙蝠
• hanger-on; parasite
• visitor to a red-light district who's only there to look - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
• phrase - Linguistics term
• verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
• haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
• maxim; saying; idiom; expression

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to condemn; to blame; to criticize; to criticise; to reproach; to accuse
• to urge; to press; to pester
• to torture; to torment; to persecute
• to break in (a horse)

noun:

• outline of the sun (esp. represented as a red circle)
• the Japanese flag - abbreviation ➜ 日の丸の旗

noun:

• written language; literary language
• formal (or archaic) written style based on Heian-period Japanese

noun:

• eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); eastern provinces - archaism
• east - archaism
• six-stringed Japanese zither - abbreviation ➜ 東琴
• my spouse ［吾妻・吾嬬］

noun:

• koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres
• measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

noun:

• Japan and (South) Korea

~の noun:

• Japanese and (South) Korean

noun / ~の noun:

• first place; first rank; unit's position ［いちい］

noun:

• Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) - usu. イチイ, also 櫟 - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae)
• Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun / ~の noun:

• right side
• style of Japanese court music

noun:

• leaf bud
• bud of Japanese pepper tree (Xanthoxylum piperitum)

noun:

• lecturer; rhetorician; orator
• narrator in Japanese silent cinema; film interpreter

noun / ~の noun:

• muddiness; murkiness; lack of clarity
• impurity
• Japanese voiced consonant mark
• unrefined sake - abbreviation ➜ 濁り酒

noun / ~する noun:

• reading in a monotone
• reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

noun:

• sweet flag (Acorus calamus); calamus
• Japanese iris (Iris ensata var. ensata) - colloquialism ➜ 花菖蒲

noun:

• large size
• large oval Japanese gold coin ➜ 小判

noun:

• tea-ceremony dishes ➜ 会席料理
• traditional Japanese meal brought in courses

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

noun:

• Rhododendron macrosepalum
• Japanese azalea (Rhododendron japonicum); renge azalea - archaism ➜ 蓮華躑躅【れんげつつじ】

noun:

• wild giant butterbur ➜ 蕗
• Japanese silverleaf ➜ 石蕗