noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by politicians (in the formulation of a policy or bill) (rather than by bureaucrats) - four character idiom

noun:

• stone sauna; facility where one rests on towels laid on a slab of heated natural rock

noun:

• sub-temple, esp. a Zen one founded to commemorate the death of a high priest - Buddhism term

noun:

• hitting the maximum value of a numeric counter (in a video game) - From English "counter stop" ➜ カンスト

noun:

• irrumatio (fellatio wherein the majority of movement is performed by the fellatee); face-fucking - vulgar - slang - From Latin ➜ フェラチオ

noun:

• spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• at the point of death; almost dead; about to die
• at some limit (pain, hunger, etc.)

noun:

• (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district ➜ 大選挙区制

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】

noun:

• San-you region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures)

noun:

• silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma, species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark from the Western Pacific)

noun:

• round coin with a (square) hole in the center - colloquialism
• coin made of non-precious materials
• money

noun:

• coin (esp. an east Asian coin, many of which have a hole in the center)

noun:

• making of a craft or product, esp. a television program, movie, etc.

expression:

• sashimi garnish
• something of no significance; something that can easily be done without

noun:

• bronze currency of ancient China (some pieces shaped like spades and others like opened straight razors)

noun:

• par save (in golf, number of shots above par for that hole)

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 夏越しの祓

noun:

• switch (long, tender shoot of a plant) - archaism
• switch (cane used for flogging) ➜ 笞【しもと】

noun:

• stream of water cascading onto one's back (in an onsen); pelting water; waterfall shower

noun:

• copy holder; stand for holding papers during typing, etc. - IT term
• glass part of a scanner, copier, etc. - IT term

prefix:

• great; grand; large - archaism
• greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior - also written as 正 ➜ 従【ひろき】

noun / adjectival noun:

• a great deal; very much ➜ 大きに

suffix / adjective:

• (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)

noun:

• turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix); touraco; loerie; lourie