noun:

• Edo-period unit of silver coinage ［銀目］
• steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat)
• silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica) - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ 銀目鯛

noun:

• type of bronze Chinese coin first issued under Emperor Yuan of the Southern Liang dynasty worth the value of ten iron coins

noun:

• folding book

suffix / counter:

• counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori)
• counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.
• counter for pairs of curtains
• counter for tatami mats ➜ 畳【じょう】

noun:

• note written on the reverse of the right side of an ancient document (memorandum or explanation of the contents) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• disclosure; leak (of information); divulging
• leakage (e.g. of gas or liquids); leak; escape (e.g. of gas); coming in (through) (e.g. of light)

noun:

• Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 四諦

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table

noun:

• meaning of a title (of a book, poem, etc.); point of a question

noun:

• (surface of) field; plain
• unworked surface of (quarried) stone; (rough) surface of plank

numeric:

• 108; one hundred and eight

noun:

• the number of kleshas, worldly thoughts and passions - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩
• the sum of 12 months, 24 seasons of the solar year, and 72 'climates' of one year ➜ 七十二候・節気

noun:

• any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

noun:

• welling (up); gushing forth (of water); springing out; surging
• appearing (esp. suddenly)
• frothing of water (due to an advancing school of fish)

noun:

• little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• period of prescription; period of statute of limitations - Law term

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

suffix:

• separation from; loss of interest in; independence of; distancing (of oneself) from; disillusionment with; alienation from (something) ［ばなれ］

prefix:

• detached (dwelling, room) ［はなれ］ ➜ 離れ座敷

noun:

• truths of the cessation of suffering and of the way to the cessation of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 道諦・滅諦

expression / adverb:

• before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
• of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them; among others

noun:

• warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
• man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer ［さぶらい］ - archaism

noun:

• tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable)
• forward puller (of a rickshaw)

noun / ~の noun:

• telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; communion of mind with mind - four character idiom

noun:

• non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism - four character idiom - Buddhism term

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

noun:

• head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady; master (of a servant) - abbreviation
• entertaining someone as one's guest - also written as 饗 - archaism ➜ 饗設け

adjectival noun:

• plausible (e.g. of a rumour); believable (e.g. of a story); specious (e.g. of an argument); credible (e.g. of a lie); looking very like the truth

noun:

• foot of a mountain; base of a mountain ➜ 山下【さんか】
• mine; colliery - esp. 山元
• owner of a mountain; operator of a mine - esp. 山元