noun:

• famous sword; sword blade by Masamune
• sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844) - colloquialism

noun:

• eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); eastern provinces - archaism
• east - archaism
• six-stringed Japanese zither - abbreviation ➜ 東琴
• my spouse ［吾妻・吾嬬］

noun:

• legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State - honorific language

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to take along; to hold in the hand
• to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist) ➜ 下げる【さげる】

noun:

• God's will; heaven's decree; mandate of Heaven; fate; karma; destiny
• one's life; one's lifespan

noun:

• band of warriors (often formed from related or dependent families); group of samurai

noun:

• preventing a ship from passing or from leaving port

noun:

• expulsion from school ➜ 放校
• dismissal of class (at the end of the day) ➜ 放課

noun:

• double doors opening from the centre

~の noun:

• double-opening from the centre (e.g. doors, casement windows, etc.)

noun:

• method of filleting fish, chicken, etc. with a central cut and peeling back the flesh

noun:

• sprouts from a stump; buds from the base of a tree - from 孫（ひこ）生え ➜ 余蘖

noun:

• lingering snow ➜ 残雪
• snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring

noun:

• lingering snow
• snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring

noun:

• school bag (usu. handheld or hung from the shoulder); schoolbag

noun:

• Japanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan; wasei eigo

noun:

• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) - obscure term ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• the part of the fruit from which the flower has dropped

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

noun:

• pseudonym of a haiku poet

noun:

• name of a haiku poetess

noun:

• this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker); this direction ➜ 何方【どちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• here (place close to the speaker or where the speaker is)
• this one (something physically close to the speaker)

pronoun:

• I; me; we; us
• this person (someone physically close to the speaker and of equal or higher status)

noun:

• flavor of literary style; flavour of literary style

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry

noun:

• pillow made from bamboo or cane (for use during the summer)