noun:

• purifying salt ［塩花・鹽花］ - archaism
• pile of salt placed by the door of a shop or restaurant ［塩花・鹽花］
• whitecap

noun / ~する noun:

• oral instruction ➜ 口伝え・口伝【くでん】
• passing information by word-of-mouth ➜ 口伝え

noun:

• oral tradition ➜ 口伝え

noun / ~する noun:

• attending someone through the night (guard, nurse)
• act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding)
• keeping overnight vigil over body before burial

noun:

• alternative name; alternate name
• assumed name of a customer in a brothel (for anonymity)
• stage name

adjective:

• smelling burnt; smelling scorched
• smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if military action seems about to happen); war is looming
• suspicious; dubious; questionable

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• drawing hot water; person who draws hot water
• employee who pours clean hot water used for rinsing in a bathhouse
• ladle (esp. used in bath houses)

noun:

• mysteries; excellent methods
• marvelous law of Buddha; Saddharma - Buddhism term
• Lotus Sutra; teachings of the Lotus Sutra - Buddhism term ➜ 妙法蓮華経

noun:

• public building; community building - colloquialism
• box-shaped item of furniture (e.g. chest of drawers, bookcase) ［はこもの］ ➜ 脚物
• boxed gift ［はこもの］

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• cylindrical box used to measure rice
• shape for forming rice
• single serving of rice (esp. as prison food) - abbreviation ➜ 物相飯

noun:

• alphabet; ABCs
• American Broadcasting Company; ABC
• Audit Bureau of Circulations; ABC
• activity-based costing; ABC
• ABC World Airways Guide
• Atanasoff-Berry Computer; ABC

noun:

• chamber; room
• home of a monk; monk ➜ 坊・坊
• Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

noun:

• having sticky fingers; compulsive thievery
• habitual movement of one's hands
• marks from being handled often

noun / suffix noun:

• possession; ownership

noun:

• (former) Ministry of Finance - abbreviation ➜ 大蔵省

noun / prefix:

• Tibet; Tibetan people - abbreviation

~の noun / noun:

• stark naked; nude; bare
• stripped of all belongings; penniless

noun:

• naked barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum) - obscure term ➜ 裸麦

noun / ~する noun:

• oral instruction
• passing information by word-of-mouth

noun:

• oral tradition

noun:

• the hundredth year
• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
• rare chance; unusually good fortune

noun:

• Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist, 544?-496 BCE) - honorific language
• The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu, 512 BC) ➜ 孫子の兵法
• Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)

suffix noun:

• samurai receiving this much rice as a fee - after a quantity
• offering of rice cake containing this much rice
• person receiving this amount of money as a salary - obsolete term

noun:

• small tatami room
• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 放ち出
• room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

noun:

• drawstring purse; money pouch
• pouch of fried tofu stuffed with var. ingredients, used in oden ➜ 御田【おでん】
• unlicensed prostitute (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school ➜ 寺子屋
• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
• to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)