noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

adjectival noun / noun:

• very bright red; deep red; extremely flushed (of face) ➜ 真っ赤【まっか】

adjectival noun:

• downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter ➜ 真っ赤【まっか】

noun:

• half watch ashore; port and starboard liberty; shore leave for half of a ship's crew at once

noun:

• flower shower; throwing flower petals over the bride and groom after exchanging of vows

noun:

• gas pedal; pressing one's foot on the genitals of a supine person while pulling on their feet

noun:

• misedashi; debut of an apprentice geisha; ceremony in which a shikomi becomes a maiko ➜ 仕込み【しこみ】・舞子【まいこ】

noun:

• end (e.g. of street); tip; point; edge; margin
• beginning; start; first
• odds and ends; scrap; odd bit; least

noun:

• fool; idiot
• trivial matter; folly; absurdity

adjectival noun:

• foolish; stupid; dull; absurd; ridiculous

noun:

• Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell) - abbreviation ➜ 馬鹿貝

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• slanting; tilted; sloping; diagonal; oblique ➜ 斜
• distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood); amiss; awry

noun:

• navel; belly button
• protrusion or depression in the middle of an object ［へそ・ヘソ］
• center; centre; most important part; main point

noun:

• partition; division; boundary; compartment
• settlement of accounts
• preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark - Sumo term
• directing; controlling; managing; taking responsibility for

noun:

• sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan - Food term

noun:

• giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
• qilin (Chinese unicorn)
• Kirin (brand of beer) ［麒麟］
• horse that can ride 1000 ri in a day ［騏驎］ - archaism

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• self-styled humanitarian; chivalrous person; persons acting under the pretence of chivalry who formed gangs and engaged in gambling ➜ 渡世人・男伊達・町奴

noun:

• type of sweet made with bean paste (local delicacy in Kyoto); cinnamon-seasoned cracknel (cookie)
• zigzag bridge

noun:

• thread-sail filefish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer)
• skinning (an animal); stripping (a tree of its bark); barking; skinner; barker

noun:

• oil cake (fertilizer made of oily vegetable dregs)
• deep-fried meat (esp. beef offal) resembling a pork rind ［油かす］ - Food term ➜ かす饂飩

noun:

• fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• company; association; society - abbreviation ➜ 会社
• regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)

counter / suffix:

• counter for companies, shrines, etc.

noun:

• plastic packing material with air bubbles; bubble wrap - From English "air cap"
• cap on a tyre valve
• brand of lawn mower

noun:

• revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought) - four character idiom

noun:

• confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika) - obscure term

noun:

• large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp - also written as 大頭
• emperor's encampment

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product