noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• part of the shrine dedication ceremony at the Hachiman shrine in Yoshitomi, where articulated wooden dolls enact a sumo bout - Shintō term ➜ 紙相撲【かみずもう】

noun:

• 43rd year of the sexagenary cycle (year of the Fire Horse, renowned for disasters and the birth of women destined to kill their husbands)

noun / suffix noun:

• edge (of a river, woods, etc.); shoulder (of a road) - sometimes べり as a suffix
• rim; brim; hem; margin; fringe; selvage
• fabric border (of a tatami mat, etc.); edging

noun / ~する noun:

• search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt
• legally authorized search of a person, building, etc. - Law 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 / ~する noun:

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

noun:

• biting louse (any louse of order Mallophaga) ➜ 羽虱
• small winged insect (esp. a flying ant or termite) - colloquialism ➜ 羽蟻

noun:

• book or scroll that has been handed down through generations; book of secrets
• delivering a letter

noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to redeem; to take out of pawn
• to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage (by paying off her debt to her employer) ➜ 身請け

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to play; to enjoy oneself; to have a good time
• to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.)
• to be idle; to do nothing; to be unused
• to go to (for pleasure or for study) - as 〜に遊ぶ
• to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batter's concentration - Baseball term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to speak with an accent; to be corrupted (of word); to mispronounce

noun:

• jigo; go game resulting in a tie or a draw

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.)

suffix / particle:

• a mere (status or characteristic); implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)

noun:

• today and tomorrow; today or tomorrow; in a day or two - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)
• to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution

noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

noun:

• gratuitous scene inserted in a narrative (in anime, etc.); scene designed purely to excite or titillate the viewer - From English "service cut"

noun:

• transferring a shintai in a portable shrine, e.g. to another shrine or to a ceremony - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun / ~の noun:

• flavour; flavor; taste
• charm; appeal; interest; meaning; significance

noun:

• implication; hidden meaning; latitude; atmosphere; tone; sentiment; inclusion