noun:

• generation; lifetime
• the age; the day

noun / suffix noun:

• the First - after the name of a king, etc.

noun:

• issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)

noun:

• grand kagura performance at Ise
• type of performance including the lion dance and juggling ➜ 雑芸
• Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 椿

noun:

• longfin batfish (Platax teira, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish); Tiera batfish ［つばめうお・ツバメウオ］
• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) - obscure term ➜ 飛び魚

noun:

• reading classical Chinese aloud without trying to understand the meaning
• reading a kanji compound using the Japanese pronunciation of each of its characters

noun:

• food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant) ➜ 膳
• cook; chef; person who prepares food

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• top crease of a sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)
• sleeve cap (of Western clothing)

noun:

• Japanese odd-scaled snake (Achalinus spinalis); Peters' odd-scaled snake; grey burrowing snake

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to add kana to; to add Japanese reading to ➜ 振る【ふる】・振り仮名

noun:

• method of patterning traditional Japanese clothing (the tops of all of patterns being pointed at the highest part of the shoulder)

noun:

• soup served at the end of a traditional Japanese dinner; last soup served in a Kaiseki course (often miso soup) ➜ 会席料理

expression:

• size isn't everything; something might be small but still pack a punch; Japanese pepper is small-grained but has a tongue-numbing tingle [literal] - proverb

noun:

• eaves (of roof)
• narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building - Architecture term
• visor (of a cap); brim; peak
• classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 庇髪

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing for women and children (e.g. kimono, yukata) (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

noun:

• expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime ➜ 連座制

noun:

• weasel (esp. the Japanese weasel, Mustela itatsi)
• mustelid (any other member of the weasel family, incl. badgers, martens, minks, ferrets, otters, polecats, stoats, skunks, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana); Gray's bird cherry; Gray's chokecherry

noun:

• Japanese red-backed vole (Myodes andersoni)
• red-backed vole (any rodent of genus Myodes)

noun:

• sago cycad (Cycas revoluta); king sago palm; sago palm; Japanese sago palm

noun:

• Japanese hornet (Vespa simillima, esp. subspecies Vespa simillima simillima); yellow hornet

noun:

• same person
• said person; the person in question
• coterie; clique; fraternity; kindred spirits; comrade; colleague
• dōjin; doujin; Japanese fans or hobbyists who produce their owns magazines, manga, software, etc. ［どうじん］

suffix noun:

• -like; pseudo-; mock ...; imitation ...; in the style of ...

noun:

• comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts)
• criticism; censure - archaism

noun:

• Anderson's crocodile newt (Echinotriton andersoni); Anderson's newt; Ryukyu spiny newt; Japanese warty newt

noun:

• fresh Japanese sweets (usu. containing red bean paste)
• fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes