noun:

• rice that has browned (due to age)
• variety of low-quality foreign rice
• red rice (ancient variety of rice); red-kerneled rice

noun:

• adulthood (i.e. age 20 in Japan); one's majority

noun:

• confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika) - obscure term

noun:

• Volkerwanderung (great migration in Europe during the Migration Age)

noun / ~の noun:

• the present (day or age)

noun:

• Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age) ➜ 五奉行

noun:

• Lydia (Iron Age kingdom of Asia Minor)

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to close in on (30 years of age, etc.); to approach; to get close to ➜ 垂んとす

noun / ~の noun:

• being bent (with age); being stooped over

expression:

• to close in on (30 years of age, etc.); to approach; to get close to - archaism ➜ 垂んとする

conjunction:

• as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.) ➜ に連れて

expression / godan ~う verb:

• (for a nobleman) to bestow one of the kanji in his name upon someone (e.g. meritorious retainer, boy coming of age, etc.) - archaism

~の noun / noun:

• young; blooming (age); in the prime of youth; marriageable - usu. of women

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing (a new family register); compiling (an electoral register, a list of school-age children, etc.)

noun:

• period when one's voice changes; (age of) puberty

expression:

• the past; bygone days (years, age, etc.) ➜ 来し方
• the course (route) one has come by; the direction one came from

noun:

• youth; young man who has reached adulthood (conscription age)

expression:

• together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• senility; senile decay; infirmity (through age)

expression:

• in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to turn yellow; to become tinged with yellow; to yellow (with age)

noun:

• premium market segment; main (e.g. price range); largest (e.g. age group) - From English "volume zone"

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

numeric:

• four

noun:

• four years of age
• ten o'clock (old time system)
• cross grips - Sumo term ➜ 四つ身

noun:

• generation; lifetime
• the age; the day

noun / suffix noun:

• the First - after the name of a king, etc.

noun:

• issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)