noun:

• bamboo growing along a river bank
• Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• prostitute; the life of a prostitute - archaism

noun:

• person in charge of music (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 立方【たちかた】
• person singing ballads (in noh)
• coast (esp. as seen from the water); shore
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area - archaism

noun:

• chinaberry; Japanese bead tree (Melia azedarach) - archaism ➜ 栴檀【せんだん】
• light purple outside, green inside; purple outside, light purple inside; type of garment layering color scheme, worn in April and May

noun:

• frog (esp. the wrinkled frog or Asian grass frog); toad (esp. the Japanese toad) - colloquialism

noun:

• Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; ivy morning glory
• any funnel shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); funnel-shaped urinal

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
• Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido ➜ 和人地

noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

noun:

• territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto

noun:

• Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE)
• Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE)
• era of vicious competition

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem
• to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to come near; to let someone approach
• to bring near; to bring together; to collect; to gather
• to deliver (opinion, news, etc.); to send (e.g. a letter); to contribute; to donate
• to let someone drop by
• to add (numbers)
• to have feelings for (love, goodwill, trust, etc.)
• to rely upon for a time; to depend on
• to use as a pretext
• to put aside
• to press; to push; to force
• to include; to welcome (in a group); to let in - Kansai dialect

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】

noun:

• length of a sleeve (of Western clothing)
• height of a sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• roux (mixture of butter and flour used to make sauces); sauce made from such a mixture - From French
• (Japanese) curry powder; curry sauce made from this powder

noun:

• Kintaro; hero boy of Japanese folklore, who befriended animals and had supernatural strength - childhood name of late-Heian warrior Sakata no Kintoki
• Kintaro doll (usu. having a plump red face, carrying an axe, and wearing a red apron)
• diamond-shaped apron

noun:

• Chinese and Japanese poetry and instrumental music; poetry and music; literature and music - four character idiom

noun:

• distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)
• dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish
• var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper

noun:

• unstitched, open side of some traditional Japanese clothing; clothing with such an open side - abbreviation ➜ 縫腋
• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran ➜ 闕腋の袍

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate ➜ ニホンザル
• sly person - derogatory term
• idiot; hick - derogatory term
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
• clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook ➜ 自在鉤
• bathhouse prostitute - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table) ➜ 膳部

noun:

• Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official