noun / ~する noun:

• listing (on the stock exchange, etc.); taking a company public
• presentation (e.g. of a play, opera); performance ➜ 上演

noun:

• toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox

noun:

• wait for the middle tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• setting up a stall or booth (bazaar, festival)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• opening a branch office; opening a store

noun:

• baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood - Buddhism term
• baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• pouring water onto a gravestone - Buddhism term
• teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky)
• to lack common sense
• to be extremely surprised (by) - colloquialism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass on an order; to pass the word

noun:

• "multilayer" train; single train formed by joining one or more trains having a different origin or destination

noun:

• last orders (for food or drink in a bar or restaurant); last call - From English "order stop"

noun:

• deity that originated on the Asian mainland, particularly the Korean Peninsula, during the Yayoi or Kofun Periods (e.g. Ame no Hiboko) ➜ 渡来

adjectival noun / noun:

• nonsense; no meaning; meaningless

noun / ~の noun:

• hidden meaning; symbolism; moral

noun:

• true meaning; underlying principle

noun:

• true heart; correct meaning

noun:

• reason; circumstances; meaning

noun:

• kanji reading and meaning

noun:

• flavour; flavor - incorrect variant of 味わい ➜ 味わい
• meaning; significance

noun:

• wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
• going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation

noun / ~の noun:

• protruding eyes
• number of pips visible after a throw of the dice

noun:

• central pillar of a pagoda; shinbashira
• leader of the Tenri religion ［真柱］

noun:

• head monk in charge of the administrative section of a zendo (Zen) - Buddhism term ➜ 禅堂

noun:

• slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen) ➜ 胴掛け

noun:

• abomasum (fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant); maw; rennet-bag

noun:

• jatropha (member of a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family)

noun:

• consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)