expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be slightly inferior; to be a degree worse
• to give an inch; to make a concession; to concede a point

noun:

• geta; Japanese wooden clogs
• turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character - later printed as 〓, resembling the teeth of a geta ➜ 伏せ字【ふせじ】

noun / ~の noun:

• muddiness; murkiness; lack of clarity
• impurity
• Japanese voiced consonant mark
• unrefined sake - abbreviation ➜ 濁り酒

noun:

• giant butterbur (Petasites japonicus); Japanese sweet coltsfoot

noun:

• Japanese andromeda (Pieris japonica); lily-of-the-valley

noun:

• red-berried elder (Sambucus racemosa subsp. sieboldiana); Japanese elderberry

noun:

• spinning top (traditionally made of Japanese babylon shell)

noun:

• Dictionarium Latino Lusitanicum, ac Iaponicum, (Latin- Portuguese-Japanese dictionary, pub. 1595)

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) - four character idiom ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• neckband; round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing) ➜ 上頸

noun:

• trout - obscure term
• Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis) ［はらあか］
• Nibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii) ［はらか］

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

noun:

• Japanese ko-so-a-do demonstratives (e.g. pronouns: kore, sore, are, dore) - Linguistics term

noun:

• Azuma-asobi (ancient Japanese dance suite that originated in eastern Japan) - archaism

noun:

• Nihon Montoku Tenno Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 文徳実録・六国史

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• bulbil (esp. of a Japanese yam); propagule; brood bud

noun:

• techno-superliner (high-speed Japanese cargo ship); TSL

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)

noun:

• partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)

noun:

• himedaka; gold-colored breed of the Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes) ➜ メダカ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fail to recognize; to fail to recognise ➜ お見逸れ
• to underestimate ➜ お見逸れ