noun:

• gloss; luster; lustre; shine; sheen; polish
• mellowness (of a voice); youthfulness (e.g. of skin)
• interest; appeal; charm; color; colour; feeling
• romance; love; sexiness

noun / suffix noun:

• popularity; favour; favor; reception

noun:

• defense; defence; reputation
• agreement
• receiver of technique (e.g. in martial arts)
• submissive partner of a homosexual relationship - often abbr. 凹 on gay SNS sites - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ 猫・攻め・タチ

noun:

• enclosure; fence; wall; pen; paling
• storage (of fruit, vegetables, etc.)
• partitioned area of a room for conducting tea ceremonies
• mistress - abbreviation ➜ 囲い者
• castle; strong defensive position - Shōgi term

noun:

• draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; strainer; sieve
• something full of holes ➜ ざる法【ざるほう】
• zaru soba - abbreviation ➜ ざる蕎麦
• strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish - colloquialism

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
• meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
• equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• pointed end; tip; point; cusp (of a leaf, crescent moon, etc.); apex (of a curve)
• forefront; vanguard; spearhead; leading edge

noun:

• sky
• heaven ［てん］
• svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth) ［てん］ - Buddhism term
• deva (divine being of Buddhism) ［てん］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• cut end; edge (of a page, etc.)
• small amount; small sum Antonym: 大口【おおぐち】
• beginning; clue
• tiger's den; jaws of death; dangerous place ➜ 虎口

noun:

• state (of mind); mental state; emotional condition
• field (of activity)
• one's lot; circumstance; situation in life
• place; region; area; land - orig. meaning

noun:

• swallowing in one gulp; downing; mouthful; bite
• sipping; sip
• thinking nothing of one's opponent; making easy prey of someone

expression:

• necessity is the mother of invention; there is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

noun:

• kingdom - Biology term
• erathem (rock layer corresponding to the era in which it was deposited) - Geology term
• partition of land

suffix:

• the world of (some category)

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• Asplenium antiquum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 大谷渡
• Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant) ➜ 隠れ蓑
• leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc. ➜ 三角柏

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

noun:

• Abenomics; economic and monetary policies of Shinzo Abe, 90th and 96th prime minister of Japan, during his second term

noun:

• French paradox; paradox of relatively high health levels in France despite smoking, consumption of alcohol, meat, etc.