noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

noun:

• pigeon seen on the morning of the New Year (e.g. as one is going to the shrine or temple for the New Year prayers)

noun:

• type of stew, usu. fish or vegetables in a mild broth; fish grilled unseasoned and then simmered slowly in soy and mirin broth

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)

noun:

• Mary Celeste; famous British ship found in 1872 without crew or passengers
• archetypal ghost ship; unmanned ship

noun:

• Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE) ［こうらい］ - abbreviation

noun / prefix noun:

• Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty)

noun:

• (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine ［狛］ ➜ 狛犬

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• charisma (i.e. attractiveness, charm) - From German "Charisma"
• charisma (i.e. divinely conferred power or talent); charism
• charismatic person
• someone famous (usu. for their talent); celebrity; idol; icon - colloquialism

expression / adjective:

• to be no match for (e.g. outclassed in authority, strength or in debt to); to be unable to act on an equal basis with - idiom

noun:

• turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired) - abbreviation ➜ 蕪
• arrow with such a whistle attached ➜ 鏑矢

noun:

• room or pavilion of residence for the master of the house (Heian period palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造
• room where the emperor usually lives in the imperial palace

noun:

• yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - colloquialism ➜ 山姥・ガングロ

noun:

• between (e.g. two people); face to face
• hindrance; impediment
• arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music - usually written using kana alone - Music term

prefix:

• prefix used for stress or emphasis

counter:

• counter for traditional dance songs

suffix / particle:

• approximately; about; around; or so - also written as 位
• to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; so ... that ...; at least
• as ... as ...; like

noun:

• first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
• initials (of one's name)

noun:

• ridge of earth between rice fields
• ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel
• footpath between rice fields; causeway - abbreviation ➜ 畦道

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to support (someone) financially; to finance; to supply (money); to give (in support)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to present (money or gifts) to a monarch - archaism

expression:

• need not (verb); (not) have to; expressing absence of obligation or necessity - after neg. stem of verb
• need not have; need not exist ➜ 無い

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun:

• tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room
• dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)

noun:

• classical school or style (e.g. of music, baseball pitching, etc.); orthodox school; authentic style
• purist; follower of the orthodox school

noun:

• goldfish with a shrimp-like tail ［えびお］
• head of a shamisen or lute (bent back like a shrimp's tail)

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

expression:

• expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

noun:

• door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity