noun:

• any of a number of secret societies of ancient China (often opposed to the government)

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of general affairs) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)

noun:

• dish of pickled skipjack tuna entrails sometimes mixed with sake, honey, mirin and onions (specialty of Kochi Prefecture)

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow) ➜ 藍摺

noun:

• striking sparks with flint and steel or by rubbing sticks together (usu. to start a fire); fire lit by sparks from flint and steel, etc. ➜ 鑽る
• Shinto fire-purification ceremony - Shintō term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to carry something out of a place
• to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery)
• to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject); to raise (an issue); to mention

noun:

• joint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector; third sector [literal]

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• maternity and gynaecology department (gynecology); department of obstetrics and gynaecology (gynecology)

noun:

• Koya paper; Japanese paper produced in the vicinity of Mt. Koya ➜ 和紙

noun:

• ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities
• ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami

noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

noun:

• 43rd year of the sexagenary cycle (year of the Fire Horse, renowned for disasters and the birth of women destined to kill their husbands)

noun:

• koban; small former Japanese oval gold coin ➜ 大判

noun / ~の noun:

• oval ➜ 小判型

noun:

• small size (of paper) ➜ 判【はん】

noun:

• shiba (Japanese breed of dog); shiba inu; brushwood dog

noun:

• half
• biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage - from "half blood" - sensitive

noun:

• sudachi (species of Japanese citrus, Citrus sudachi)

noun:

• ship transporting earth
• ship made of earth (in Japanese tales) ➜ 泥舟

expression:

• to get a tiny share of the profits; to get a small share of what someone is enjoying

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

noun / adjectival noun:

• being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear - four character idiom

noun:

• married couple; spouses; husband and wife; couple; pair

prefix noun:

• his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman) ［めおと］ ➜ 夫婦茶碗

noun / prefix:

• both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.)

noun:

• ryo (obsolete unit of currency)
• 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin) ➜ 斤
• 2 tan (measure of fabric size) ➜ 反【たん】

counter:

• counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles - also written 輛 and 輌