adjectival noun / noun:

• being older or a senior; the first half of the year

noun:

• a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable - four character idiom

noun:

• uppercase letter; capital letter ［おおもじ］ ➜ 小文字
• large character; large writing
• the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big" ［だいもんじ］
• huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year ［だいもんじ］

noun / ~の noun:

• the sense of hearing

noun:

• the sense of smell

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

noun:

• booth or stall set up on the sidewalk in front of a shop or home (esp. food booths at festivals) - Kansai dialect ➜ 床店【とこみせ】・出店【でみせ】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sum it up in one word; ... is the word for it - often Ｘの一言に尽きる

noun:

• poem written by the Emperor or a member of the imperial family

noun:

• fashion sense; sense of fashion

noun:

• drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums - Sumo term

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun / suffix noun:

• angle
• square (or cube)
• bishop - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 角行【かくぎょう】
• third degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 角宿・二十八宿【にじゅうはっしゅく】・蒼竜【そうりょう】
• jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan) ➜ 元【げん】

expression / noun:

• mono no aware; appreciation of the fleeting nature of beauty; pathos of things; strong aesthetic sense

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun:

• hairdresser's room in the residence of the shogun or a noble - archaism

noun:

• tamponade; blockage or closure of a wound or body cavity by (or as if by) a tampon (esp. to stop bleeding) - Medicine term ➜ 心タンポナーデ【しんタンポナーデ】

noun:

• making use of the surrounding landscape as a part of the design of a garden; natural scenery used as the background in the landscaping of a garden

noun:

• cooking over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning; food prepared over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning ➜ 別火

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• holding a job; being employed ［ゆうしょく］ Antonym: 無職
• being learned; being knowledgeable - archaism
• having great artistic talent; being a skilled performer - archaism
• being well-versed in usages or practices of the court or military households - archaism

noun:

• general policy speech; speech held by the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of a special or extraordinary Diet session

noun:

• sexual intercourse permitted (by a woman) due to a sense of obligation (rather than desire) - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• invention

adjectival noun:

• intelligent; clever ➜ 聡明

noun / ~する noun:

• being enlightened; having the meaning of everything become clear - archaism