noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
• northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

noun:

• Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)

noun:

• Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines) ➜ お火焚

noun:

• flies; area over the stage of a theater (containing overhead lights, drop curtains, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, a shortnose chimaera found in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

expression:

• mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)

adverb:

• straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly; at once

noun:

• Far East Command; FEC; United States military headquarters in the western Pacific after World War II

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

noun / ~する noun:

• permanent staff; permanent employee; service for a fixed period of time - obscure term

noun:

• (Edo era) a daimyo or feudal retainer who lived and/or served in Edo for a fixed period of time - archaism

noun:

• eggs; egg; spawn; roe ［卵］
• hen egg
• (an expert) in the making ［卵］
• beginning; origin; infancy ［卵］

noun:

• ball
• ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone) - Baseball term
• bowl
• board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ ボール紙

noun:

• beach; seashore
• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 揚げ浜
• Yokohama - abbreviation ➜ 横浜
• riverbank; riverside - archaism - Ōsaka dialect

adverb:

• first of all; at once; right away
• for now; for the time being

expression / conjunction:

• in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of

noun:

• the capital city (often Tokyo) area (typically within 50 km of city's centre) (center)

adverb:

• supposing; even if; granting that; for argument's sake
• temporarily; provisionally; for the time being