noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

noun:

• viewing all things as undifferentiated and equal; non-discriminative thought
• contemplation of the equality of all things from the standpoint of emptiness - Buddhism term

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea) ➜ 竜宮【りゅうぐう】

noun:

• piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood

adverb:

• suddenly; at once; in one go; with a jerk; with a gulp - onomatopoeia
• considerably; very much; a lot - onomatopoeia
• firmly; with an effort; tightly; exerting pressure - onomatopoeia
• completely (e.g. at a loss) - onomatopoeia
• deeply (e.g. moved) - onomatopoeia

particle:

• until (a time); till; to; up to
• to (a place); as far as
• to (an extent); up to; so far as; even
• only; merely

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back - onomatopoeia
• action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to suddenly assume an antagonistic attitude; to suddenly become defiant; to turn aggressive (in one's manner)
• to moon; to point one's naked buttocks at someone; to give somebody the brown-eye

noun:

• Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren)
• Tendai sect of Buddhism

~と adverb / adverb:

• lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore) - onomatopoeia
• steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough - often used adverbially as ひたひたに - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• speedily; promptly; quickly; smoothly - onomatopoeia - archaism
• closely; exactly - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• meeting or association of stable masters belonging to the same grouping - Sumo term
• meeting or association of followers of a famous performer (in rakugo, etc.)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to act as an agent for; to intermediate
• to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to receive (a guest at reception); to usher in (a guest)
• to convey (a message)

noun / ~する noun:

• intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion
• absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); assimilation
• reception and protection - Buddhism term

noun:

• letters (characters) indicating the end of a movie (The End, Fin, etc.) - From English "end mark"
• indication of the end (of something)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; making food oneself; self-catering
• scanning a book or magazine to create an ebook by oneself

noun:

• cloud; look of the sky; movement of clouds
• kabuki accessory representing a cloud
• type of strange mist appearing in the sky, used for divination

noun:

• area on the concave side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 外帯
• area of southwestern Japan north of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本内帯

noun:

• area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 内帯
• area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本外帯

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun:

• chairman; speaker (e.g. of assembly); president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.); moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup)

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

noun:

• light and shade; shade (of colour, color)
• depth (of flavor); complexity; strength and weakness (of flavor)

noun:

• last day of March; last day of the third lunar month (marking the end of spring)

noun / suffix noun:

• lattice - Mathematics term

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish)
• handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)