adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• scraping; scratching - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• hard (to the bite, to the touch) - onomatopoeia

expression / noun:

• all the gods and goddesses; all the deities - Shintō term ➜ 八百万【やおよろず】

expression / noun:

• negation of the negation (in the Hegelian dialectic)

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; forerunner; harbinger; herald
• leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)

noun:

• reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation - From English "short time"
• short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) - From English "short time"

noun / ~する noun:

• make a choice among many; select the good (desirable, necessary, relevant) and discard the rest; decision to adopt or reject - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade ➜ 反台鉋

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• azuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun:

• lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room
• cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 火鉢

noun:

• servant; valet; footman
• someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family - archaism
• low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Rituryo system) - archaism
• ox-tender for oxcarts; horse boy - archaism
• honorary junior official of the Imperial Household Department's Board of Ceremonies involved in miscellaneous duties related to ceremonies ➜ 宮内省

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language

noun:

• driving off birds
• procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house
• female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen
• street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan

noun:

• sentence
• composition; text; writings
• the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature ➜ 武
• statement - IT term

noun:

• crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

noun:

• weather; look of the sky
• situation; turn of affairs; signs; way the wind is blowing

noun:

• Menshevik; member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party - From Russian "Men'sheviki" ➜ ボルシェビキ

noun / ~する noun:

• raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level - From English "level up"

noun:

• the way something ought to be
• the (current) state of things; how things are

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle (a matter) for the time being; to complete the first stage (of something)

noun:

• provincial governor (under the ritsuryo system, any of a group of officials, esp. the director) ➜ 守【かみ】