noun:

• blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.)

noun:

• reservation of Japanese nationality (procedure used with children born outside Japan)

noun:

• Kounin-Jougan period (of Japanese art history, approx. 794-894 CE)

noun:

• Treaty of Portsmouth (ending the Russo-Japanese War, 1905)

noun:

• Shoku Nihon Kouki (fourth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史

noun:

• Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史

noun:

• Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) ［櫟］ ➜ 一位【いちい】
• Quercus gilva (species of oak) ➜ いちい樫

noun:

• Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)

noun:

• Japanese variety of music box (invented in 1892 by Toda Kindo)

noun:

• butoh; style of contemporary Japanese dance featuring dancers in white paint

noun:

• branch of ancient Japanese magic tricks inherited mainly from oral tradition

noun:

• leather strap binding the plates of traditional Japanese armor (armour)

noun:

• pickled buds of chocolate vine, Japanese pepper tree, etc. - Food term

noun:

• Shoki the Plague-Queller; Zhong Kui (traditional Chinese deity said to prevent plagues and ward off evil beings); vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons
• Shoki (WWII fighter aircraft)

numeric:

• one-hundredth; 0.3 mm (one-hundredth of a sun); 0.1 percent (one-hundredth of a wari); 0.0375 grams (one-hundredth of a monme)

noun:

• old monetary unit (0.001 yen)

noun:

• life and death
• samsara (cycle of death and rebirth) ［しょうし・しょうじ］ - Buddhism term
• death ［しょうし・しょうじ］

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:

• reading-book; reader; guidebook; manual ➜ 入門書
• textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook) - original meaning

noun:

• book in Japanese
• book bound in the Japanese style ➜ 和本

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be meant for each other (of a man and woman); to be connected through fate; to be destined to marry (each other); to be tied by the red string (of fate) [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤い糸

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun:

• pointed knife
• logging; cutting
• (beef) scraps
• starting to speak
• extraction (of a portion of a media file); splicing out

noun:

• beating of a drum as a signal to announce the opening (beginning) of an event (theatrical performance, festival, etc.)

noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)