noun:

• the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects) ➜ 七賢人
• Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ➜ 竹林の七賢

noun:

• drinker; person fond of alcohol (as opposed to sweets) ➜ 甘党
• person fond of spicy food - colloquialism

noun:

• ear (e.g. of wheat) ［穂先］
• tip (e.g. of brush or spear); spearhead ➜ 矛先【ほこさき】

expression:

• in consideration of; in deference to; out of respect for; for (someone's) sake - as ...に免じて

noun / ~する noun:

• capture; seizure
• military capture of a foreign vessel; making a prize of - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• possession (of what is required); fulfilment (of conditions); being equipped with; being endowed with

noun:

• treasure ship
• picture of a treasure ship bearing the Seven Gods of Good Fortune

noun:

• group of mountain nomads (in Japan); group of mountain people; the Sanka

noun:

• scenic beauty of mountains and streams; fresh and clear beauty of nature's splendor - four character idiom

noun:

• the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other - four character idiom

noun:

• hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata)
• Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to come of age (for a girl) - obscure term ➜ 肩揚げ
• to lengthen the sleeves of a kimono - obscure term

noun:

• Kannon (Bodhisattva); Kwannon; Goddess of Mercy; Bodhisattva of Compassion; Guan Yin; Kuan Yin ➜ 観音・観世音

noun / ~する noun:

• return of the Emperor (from a visit)
• return of a shintai to its shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

prefix:

• several; a number of

noun / suffix noun:

• quantity; amount

noun:

• counting; figures; numbers
• number; numeral; figure
• grammatical number - Linguistics term
• destiny; fate; course of events; trend

noun / ~する noun:

• varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor ➜ ブラックツリーモニター

noun:

• peacock monitor (Varanus auffenbergi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the island of Roti in Indonesia); Auffenberg's monitor

noun:

• Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter)
• this passage; this sentence

noun:

• trouble; bother
• number of moves (in go, shogi, etc.) ［てかず］
• number of punches (in boxing) ［てかず］

adverb / noun:

• whatever; what; what sort of; any kind of
• nothing whatever (with neg. verb)

noun:

• length of a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
• walking on the edge of a sword

noun / ~の noun:

• pericarp (ripened ovary wall forming part of a fruit)
• skin (of a fruit); peel; rind

noun:

• year of a person's birth ［せいねん］

noun / prefix noun:

• number of years since one's birth; age - e.g. 生年35歳