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:

• fame; glory; reputation
• English name of plants and animals

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:

• Anglo-America
• English-speaking part of America

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

noun:

• lion mask ［ししがしら］
• Japanese deer fern (Blechnum nipponicum) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• flowering tree
• Japanese red maple (Acer pycnanthum)

noun:

• slotted dome cast iron grill for preparing the Genghis Khan dish
• Japanese mutton and vegetable dish ➜ ジンギス汗料理