noun:

• sweetfish sushi; ayu sushi; belly of sweetfish salted, pickled and served on rice

noun:

• giant crape-myrtle (Lagerstroemia speciosa); Queen's crape-myrtle; banabá; Pride of India

noun:

• black beard
• type of noh mask with a black beard and protruding chin

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• shadow; silhouette; figure; shape
• reflection; image
• ominous sign
• light (stars, moon)
• trace; shadow (of one's former self)

suffix noun:

• depending on
• as soon as; immediately (upon) - often after the -masu stem of a verb
• in accordance with

noun:

• order; program; programme; precedence
• circumstances; course of events; reason

noun / suffix noun:

• direction; orientation; aspect; exposure

suffix noun:

• suited to; suitable for; designed for

noun:

• tendency; inclination
• nature (of a request or desire)
• person

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

noun:

• study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
• provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law) - archaism ➜ 大学

particle:

• indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
• indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)

conjunction:

• but; however; still; and
• regardless of; whether (or not) - after the volitional form of a verb

noun:

• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
• evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• living a life of leisure with dignity; living quietly and comfortably free from worldly cares; otium cum dignitate - four character idiom

noun:

• night chat; tale told at night
• evening tea party (starting around 6 pm) ［よばなし］

noun / suffix noun:

• book of informal essays ［やわ］

noun:

• shop used for testing sales of new products; showroom - From English "antenna shop" ➜ パイロットショップ
• shop selling local specialities to Tokyo

noun / suffix noun:

• broken piece

suffix noun:

• below (a certain level, point, quantity, etc.); dropping below

noun:

• illegal downloading and distribution of commercial software; warez - slang - IT term ➜ ワレズ

noun:

• drawstring purse; money pouch
• pouch of fried tofu stuffed with var. ingredients, used in oden ➜ 御田【おでん】
• unlicensed prostitute (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• paper width
• allotted number of pages (e.g. for article in magazine); assigned space
• binding for calligraphy and paintings

noun:

• skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium

noun:

• rainfall of a strange, dark color (colour); whirlwinds accompanied by rain which also drops strange objects such as fish

adjectival noun / noun:

• an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

noun:

• catching birds (using a birdlime-covered pole); bird catcher
• slices of raw chicken meat; chicken sashimi ➜ 刺身

noun:

• meadow bunting (species of passerine, Emberiza cioides)
• great white shark; white pointer (Carcharodon carcharias) ［頬白］ - obscure term ➜ 頬白鮫

noun:

• sweet crescent-shaped confection of pancake-like sponge cake filled with adzuki paste
• Chinese dumpling; Chinese steamed bun ➜ 中華まん

noun:

• Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.) - honorific language ➜ 稲荷
• Inari shrine - honorific language ➜ 稲荷
• inarizushi (sushi wrapped in fried tofu) - polite language ➜ 稲荷鮨
• scrotum; testicle sack - humorous term - slang

noun:

• thermo inner; inner lining (e.g. of ski boots) that is thermally molded to fit