noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

noun:

• first ears of rice of the season; first crops of the season; first harvest of the season
• offering (to the gods)

expression:

• burying one's head in the sand (while leaving other parts of one's body exposed); exposing one's weak point while attempting to protect oneself; hiding one's head without hiding one's bottom [literal] - idiom

expression:

• it's not over yet; you haven't seen anything yet; it's not over until the fat lady sings; it's too soon to tell; we're not out of the woods

noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

noun:

• flying; leaping; flight; leap - abbreviation ➜ 飛ぶ
• naught; zero; oh - when reading a number aloud
• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) ➜ 飛魚
• running out of points (zero or fewer); game ending due to a player running out of points ［飛び］ - Mahjong term

noun:

• mark-to-market valuation; fair market valuation; fair valuation; market valuation

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• mom's home cooking; taste of mom's cooking; taste of home cooking; food like mom used to make

noun:

• master (of a house, shop, etc.)
• husband (informal)
• sir; boss; master; governor; word used to address a male patron, customer, or person of high status
• patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy ➜ パトロン
• alms; almsgiving; almsgiver - orig. meaning; usu. written as 檀那 - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "dāna" ➜ 檀越・檀家

expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

noun:

• good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense - four character idiom

noun:

• road; path; street; lane; passage
• route; way
• distance; journey
• road (e.g. to victory); course
• way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
• teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
• field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
• means; way; method

expression:

• it's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard [literal] - proverb

noun:

• lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room
• cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 火鉢

prefix noun:

• new members (e.g. club); new students; freshman

noun:

• event to welcome new students, club members, etc. (e.g. welcome party) - abbreviation ➜ 新歓コンパ

noun:

• earth; soil; dirt; clay; mud
• the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land
• low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud) ➜ 鳥の子紙
• (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō) - also written as 犯土, 椎, 槌 ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• clerical appearance; appearance of a priest - Buddhism term
• teachings of Buddha; condition of the universe at creation; in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha; investiture of a Buddhist priest

noun:

• lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market)
• skilled batter; batter on a hot streak - Baseball term
• accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
• barbershop

noun:

• stretching out a string; stretching out like a string
• silk reeling; silk spinning; filature; silk reeler; silk spinner ➜ 糸取り
• pulling someone's strings
• appearance of strings from a Buddha's fingertips when being prayed to (folk belief)
• menstruation - euphemism

expression:

• Y adding up to Z; Y making up Z; Y constituting Z; Z consisting of Y; Z composed of Y; Z containing Y - for the pattern Y からなる Z

noun / ~する noun:

• making one's debut; making one's first appearance - esp. 顔見せ
• (just) showing one's face; showing up - esp. 顔見せ ➜ 顔を見せる
• introductory kabuki performance (to introduce the actors) - esp. 顔見世
• December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform - esp. 顔見世 ➜ 顔見世狂言

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• one-coin (i.e. able to be paid for with only one coin, esp. a 500-yen coin, sometimes a 100-yen coin); costing 500 yen; costing 100 yen

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］