noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts) ［建て前・建前・立て前・立前］ Antonym: 本音
• ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house ［建て前・建前］
• tea ceremony procedures; tea ceremony etiquette ［立て前・立前・点て前・点前］

noun:

• thin sheet of silver; silver foil; silverleaf
• censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony ➜ 香道【こうどう】
• Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam ➜ 裏白の木【うらじろのき】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be renewed; to change ［改まる］
• to be improved; to be reformed; to be revised; to be corrected ［改まる］
• to stand on ceremony; to be formal ［改まる］
• to take a turn for the worse (of an illness); to take a serious turn

noun:

• funeral hall
• ceremony site ➜ 祭場

noun:

• tea party; get-together
• tea ceremony

noun:

• outrider; herald
• rikishi who leads the yokozuna to the ring prior to his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• spanking

noun:

• traditional ceremony where the newly-wed wife, upon entering her new home, was hit on the rump with a straw bundle etc., to ensure her fertility

noun:

• guest of honor; guest of honour
• main guest at a tea ceremony

noun:

• skill; dexterity; artistry; ingenuity
• etiquette of tea-ceremony

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.) - Buddhism term
• food offering at a Buddhist ceremony

noun:

• chopstick stand
• weaning ceremony ➜ 食い初め

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• tea room
• tea ceremony

noun:

• white charcoal ➜ 黒炭【くろずみ】
• charcoal used for tea ceremony

noun:

• striking sparks with flint and steel or by rubbing sticks together (usu. to start a fire); fire lit by sparks from flint and steel, etc. ➜ 鑽る
• Shinto fire-purification ceremony - Shintō term

noun:

• candlelight service (e.g. in a church)
• ceremony during a wedding reception where the bride and the groom go from table to table lighting a candle at each

noun:

• growing older
• aging ceremony (on New Year's Eve or the last night of winter)

noun:

• funeral service; memorial service
• farewell ceremony (e.g. for a retiree)

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

noun:

• festivities; celebration
• wedding; marriage ceremony

noun:

• great pairing (e.g. of food and wine) - Food term - From French "mariage"
• marriage; wedded life; wedding; wedding ceremony

noun:

• lunch; midday meal
• food served at a tea party (tea ceremony) - usu. 中食

noun:

• table; desk

counter:

• counter for tables, desks, etc. ［たく］

noun:

• offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony) ［しょく］ - Buddhism term
• tabletop incense burner ［しょく］ - abbreviation ➜ 卓香炉