noun / ~する noun:

• telephone call; speaking over the telephone

counter:

• counter for telephone calls of a set duration

noun:

• official letter (from the Emperor, Prime Minister, etc.); personal message

noun / ~する noun:

• handwritten letter; autograph letter

auxiliary adjective:

• seeming ...; appearing ... - expresses judgement based on evidence, reason or trustworthy hearsay

suffix / adjective:

• -ish; like a ...; typical of ...; appropriate for ...; becoming of ...; worthy of the name ... - after a noun, adverb or adjective stem

noun:

• shooting star; falling star; meteor - Astronomy term ➜ 流星【りゅうせい】
• star (white patch on the forehead of a horse) ➜ 星月【ほしづき】

expression / adverb:

• in all; in total; collectively - esp. 合わせて, 合せて

expression / conjunction:

• in addition; besides; at the same time - esp. 併せて

noun:

• sillago (any fish of genus Sillago, esp. the Japanese whiting, Sillago japonica) - 鼠頭魚 is gikun

noun:

• in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

noun:

• keen eyesight; the eyesight of Lilou (character with superior eyesight in ancient Chinese folklore) [literal] - archaism - idiom

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

noun:

• Hakke Shinto (Shinto tradition transmitted by the House of Hakuo Shirakawa); Hakuke Shinto

noun / ~する noun:

• settlement (financial); squaring accounts; clearing debts
• liquidation
• ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past); redeeming (one's faults)

noun:

• top star (esp. male lead role in the all-female Takarazuka musical theater troupe); major celebrity

noun:

• parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother)
• (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); outriding
• harbinger; herald; precursor; forerunner; foretoken
• anticipation

proper noun:

• Hachiko; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935) ➜ 忠犬ハチ公【ちゅうけんハチこう】

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

noun:

• recipient; receiver; acceptor; taker
• skilled practitioner (of judo, sumo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• person who picks up the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 読み手

noun:

• tao-tie (mythological Chinese creature engraved on bronzeware during the Shang & Zhou dynasties) - archaism
• brutal person - idiom
• coveting of wealth (property, etc.)

noun:

• Nivkh (ethnic minority group of Russia, living near the Amur river and on Sakhalin)

noun:

• universal life force (the source of animation for all things)
• free spirit (i.e. a mindset unencumbered with worldly concerns)

counter:

• counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mitsu, and misoji, yasoji, etc.)

noun:

• Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition) - obscure term ➜ 八咫烏
• three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology ➜ 八咫烏

noun:

• nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris, species of catshark in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• black-barred surgeonfish (Acanthurus polyzona, species of tang known only from Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands)

noun:

• secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards - from ジャズ read backwards - Linguistics term