noun:

• white paper; flyleaf

noun / ~の noun:

• blank paper

noun:

• clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.
• scratch; beginning ➜ 白紙に戻す

noun:

• tool; means
• ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.)

counter:

• counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.

adjectival noun / noun:

• clumsy; awkward; unskillfulness; lack of ability
• tactless; awkward (e.g. socially); gauche
• mean; cowardly; base - archaism

noun:

• Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver ➜ 五節句

adjectival noun:

• agile; nimble; light (of foot)
• casual (clothing); light (e.g. luggage)
• carefree; with limited responsibility

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• very interesting; of absorbing interest; having a keen interest (in); being immensely curious (about) - four character idiom

noun:

• one person; one customer - honorific language
• unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - colloquialism ➜ 負け犬

noun:

• new town (esp. planned satellite towns of Osaka Prefecture); new housing development

noun:

• morning star; Venus ➜ 金星【きんせい】
• preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• being in dire distress; being hard put to it - four character idiom
• the four and eight kinds of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦・八苦

noun:

• legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine) ➜ 側室・本妻
• room for receiving guests ➜ 表座敷【おもてざしき】
• heir; successor - obscure term

adjectival noun / noun:

• mystery; something inexplicable; wonder; miracle - four character idiom ➜ 不思議
• unfathomable (of a Buddha's abilities)

numeric:

• 10^64 (or 10^80)

noun:

• side or bottom of a ship; ship's hold; bottoms; shipping; tonnage; freight space

noun:

• avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha) - Buddhism term
• Avatamska sutra - abbreviation ➜ 華厳経
• Kegon (sect of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 華厳宗

noun / ~する noun:

• kiss - colloquialism

noun / ~と adverb:

• squeak (as in the sound made by mice)
• sound of liquid being sucked up

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun / ~する noun:

• acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting ➜ 了承

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun:

• period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
• apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture - abbreviation ➜ 年季奉公
• one-year period ［年期］

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting in half
• painting or calligraphy done on a half-sized piece of paper - esp. 半折

noun:

• Feudal period (characterized by the rule of the shogunate as opposed to emperor, 1185-1867 CE) ➜ 王朝時代

noun / ~する noun:

• having a prince for a president; being the recipient of (an imperial favor, favour); reverential acceptance

noun:

• nine cuts mudra (mudra: hand posture which forms a part of Hindu prayer); exorcism-purification spell - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom