noun:

• hand; arm - polite language ➜ 手
• handwriting; penmanship - honorific language

interjection:

• 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand) ➜ お代わり

expression / noun:

• official history (e.g. a state-sanctioned account of history subject to revision when the government changes)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to become accustomed to calling (e.g. someone by a certain name)

noun:

• breaking up a match (on the decision of the referee, in boxing, etc.) - From English "referee stop"

noun:

• Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street - obscure term

noun:

• stile; doorjamb; doorpost; vertical frame element on the left or right of a door or window

noun:

• spring "tsuchinoe" day that falls closest to the vernal equinox (a day of religious significance for harvests) ➜ 社日・戊【つちのえ】

noun:

• party to celebrate the successful completion of a project (job, concert, play, etc.); celebration party ➜ 打ち上げ会

expression / noun:

• crowning glory (e.g. winning the last game of the season, creating a final spectacular art work)

noun:

• home in which a woman stays during her period (or while giving birth) - archaism
• period; menstruation; menses - archaism

expression:

• only a fool with no manners asks for another helping more than once; only fools are gluttons - idiom

noun:

• quilt; bedspread; bedcover ［うわがけ］
• cover (for a kotatsu quilt) ［うわがけ］ ➜ 炬燵
• cloak; smock ［うわがけ］
• second dyeing; topping; overlay ➜ 下染め

expression:

• when kids get in a fight, their parents come to their aid; yelping curs will raise mastiffs - proverb

noun:

• newspaper article where the journalist gives their own opinions, etc. on a particular topic; op-ed article

noun:

• flower lantern; Bon festival lantern that is decorated with artificial flowers or has a floral pattern ➜ 盆灯籠

adverb:

• completely (quitting, etc.); entirely; thoroughly; totally; wholly; without hesitation - onomatopoeia
• cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.); in a single blow - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun:

• wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayaura divination ➜ 粥占

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - From English "recruit love"

noun:

• sense of enhanced value of a commodity or service (e.g. from quality, scarcity, etc.)

noun:

• first day (in the year) that a particular species of bird or insect, etc. sing or chirp ➜ 終鳴日

noun:

• last day (in the year) that a particular species of bird or insect, etc. sing or chirp ➜ 初鳴日

~と adverb / adverb:

• deeply immersed (in water, mud, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• pushing something deep inside a soft object - onomatopoeia
• very drunk - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• soaked with water - onomatopoeia

noun:

• paid volunteer work (e.g. on a farm); work which is not done primarily to earn money - from ボランティア and アルバイト - abbreviation

noun:

• highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term