noun:

• pattern; figure; design
• state; condition
• conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems
• model; pattern; example
• indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm) - after a noun
• framework (in go); territorial framework; moyo

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun:

• skeleton (of a vertebrate, ship, building, etc.)
• transparency (revealing the inner workings of a device); translucency; see-through body
• skeleton (sport)
• skeleton (code) - IT term

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox) - obscure term ➜ 宇賀神

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented ➜ 草食男子【そうしょくだんし】

noun:

• assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.) - Buddhism term
• (monks and laity of) the Jishu sect - Buddhism term ➜ 時宗

noun:

• foot of a mountain; plain at the foot of a mountain
• range; spread; extent; encompassing circle

noun:

• index fossil (fossil which suggests a date of the formation of a rock stratum); key fossil; leading fossil

noun:

• forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism

noun:

• great and splendid land (of Yamato)
• spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home
• excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• very superior old pale (cognac); VSOP
• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern" ➜ ワンパターン
• VLBI Space Observatory Programme; Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme ➜ 超長距離干渉計【ちょうちょうきょりかんしょうけい】

noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

noun:

• spring rain that falls around the time that flowers bloom; spring rain that hastens the blooming of flowers

noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜【しちよう】

noun:

• defence of Buddhist doctrines; god who defends Buddhist doctrines - Buddhism term
• defence of the constitution
• religious power to dispel demons and diseases

noun:

• Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen)
• calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• blowing (e.g. of the wind)

noun / suffix noun:

• playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet)

noun:

• (pair of) bellows ➜ 吹子
• casting; founding; melting

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

noun:

• day of the week

noun:

• face of the earth

noun / ~の noun:

• the sense of hearing