noun:

• candlelight service (e.g. in a church)
• ceremony during a wedding reception where the bride and the groom go from table to table lighting a candle at each

noun:

• wooden transport ship used on Lake Biwa ➜ 丸子船
• vessel made from logs, e.g. large dugout canoe

noun:

• niche or alcove for an image
• (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

noun:

• wheat flour - colloquialism ➜ 小麦粉・メリケン
• flour made using wheat imported from America - orig. meaning

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• scripture
• passage from scripture

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• foreign lands - derogatory term
• clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean)

noun:

• term used in translation; translation equivalent
• word borrowed and translated from another language

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing snow down a mountain
• removing snow from the roof of a house

expression:

• up through; up until; down to - as ～に至るまで
• from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ... - as ～から～に至るまで

noun:

• anchorperson; anchorman ➜ アンカーマン
• reporter who gathers material from various contributors

noun:

• Bing cherry - From English "American cherry"
• cherries imported to Japan from America

noun:

• gooseberry; currant
• plants from the Ribes genus ➜ スグリ属

noun:

• dropping; losing - abbreviation
• missing item; something one forgot to write down
• trap
• wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed
• conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 落とし掛け

noun:

• snow melting
• water from melting snow

noun:

• liberal education
• education free from restrictions imposed by government, religion, etc.

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.

expression / noun:

• family crest shaped as a hemp leaf
• motif made from entwined hexagons

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• distant land; remote country
• province far from the capital

noun:

• bog; marsh; swamp; quagmire; morass
• quandary; dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself; imbroglio ［どろぬま・ドロぬま］

noun:

• blue sky
• erudition; detachment from the world; high rank

noun / ~の noun:

• other (place, thing, person); the rest
• outside; beyond - esp. 外 - usually written using kana alone

adverbial noun:

• nothing except; nothing but; nothing apart from; nothing aside from; no choice (but to) - as 〜ほか〜ない, usu. after より or the dictionary form of a verb - usually written using kana alone ➜ ほかない
• besides...; in addition to... - often as ほかに

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be due to; to be caused by - esp. 依る;拠る
• to depend on; to turn on - esp. 依る
• to be based on; to come from - esp. 因る;由る
• to be based at (a location, an organization); to be headquartered at - esp. 拠る