noun:

• starting point; beginning; outset
• drawing (e.g. of a bill); issuing; draft; draught
• shaking out
• throw (of dice); toss
• infusion - abbreviation ➜ 振り出し薬

noun:

• fool; oaf; airhead - Kansai dialect
• type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events ［あほだら］ - abbreviation ➜ あほだら経

noun:

• curved wooden support on top of the main beam of a house, now mainly decorative (shape evocates an open-legged frog)

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - derogatory or familiar

noun:

• samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami)
• type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

noun:

• behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; 2nd year of junior high sickness [literal] - slang - humorous term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• (for a nobleman) to bestow one of the kanji in his name upon someone (e.g. meritorious retainer, boy coming of age, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
• complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)

noun:

• yellowtail surgeonfish (Prionurus punctatus, species of Eastern Central Pacific tang found in reefs from the Gulf of California to El Salvador)

noun:

• period of grace (e.g. in which merchant vessels are allowed to leave a belligerent nation's port after an outbreak of war) - Law term

noun:

• incorporating; inserting
• nesting (e.g. of matryoshka dolls); nest
• square offering tray made of unvarnished wood (three per nested set)
• latticed ceiling - abbreviation - Architecture term ➜ 組み入れ天井

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• jingling - onomatopoeia
• (sound of) many people clapping together - onomatopoeia ➜ 手締め
• healthy; robust; active; hale and hearty; handling one's work well - onomatopoeia
• concluding successfully - onomatopoeia
• boiling (of water) - archaism - onomatopoeia

noun / ~の noun:

• path of righteousness; path of duty; right track; correct path

noun:

• host (of a party, summit, etc.)
• host (of male host club)

noun:

• twenty years of age
• youth; early age; tender age of ...

noun / suffix:

• historical view; view of history (from a given point of view)

noun:

• change of heart; change of mind; change in love interest

noun:

• the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess - four character idiom

noun:

• carpal (any of the bones of the carpus in the wrist)

noun:

• the kalpa of formation (the first aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• Meiji Constitution (Constitution of the Empire of Japan); Former Japanese Constitution - abbreviation ➜ 大日本帝国憲法

noun:

• remainder of the Diet session after the creation of the budget

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• loose (of clothing); baggy - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶかぶか・ゆったり・たぶたぶ

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• flabby; saggy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• sloshing; slopping; overflowing - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• plenty (of pouring a liquid); drowning (e.g. in a sauce) - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / noun / suffix noun:

• method; manner; way; style
• appearance; air
• tendency
• folk song (genre of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義
• wind (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

noun:

• economy of scale; cost saving or benefit from having a larger scale (e.g. of production) - From English "scale merit" ➜ 規模効果