noun / adjectival noun:

• one's own convenience; one's way; selfishness

noun:

• surroundings; environment; way of doing things
• convenience; ease of use
• financial circumstances; living; livelihood
• kitchen ➜ 台所
• right hand (in archery); hand that pulls the bowstring

prefix noun:

• unauthorised (e.g. phone app, WWW site); unofficial

noun:

• publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

noun:

• one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life - four character idiom

noun:

• canned juice; canned soft drink; can of juice; can of soft drink

expression:

• as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
• apart from... (used to change the topic)
• even (e.g. "not even a single person") - before a negative form
• thinking that...; trying to... - after a volitional form ➜ とする

noun:

• cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

noun / ~する noun:

• reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be meant for each other (of a man and woman); to be connected through fate; to be destined to marry (each other); to be tied by the red string (of fate) [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤い糸

suffix noun:

• samurai receiving this much rice as a fee - after a quantity
• offering of rice cake containing this much rice
• person receiving this amount of money as a salary - obsolete term

noun:

• tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea
• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

noun:

• road; path; street; lane; passage
• route; way
• distance; journey
• road (e.g. to victory); course
• way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
• teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
• field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
• means; way; method

noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter)
• top; summit
• surface; on
• before; previous
• superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder)
• on top of that; besides; what's more
• upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after)
• matters concerning...; as concerns ...
• since (i.e. "for that reason") - as ...上は

suffix noun:

• suffix indicating higher social standing - honorific language ➜ 父上
• place of one's superior (i.e. the throne) - archaism
• emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo - archaism
• noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman) - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• old person; elderly person; senior citizen

noun:

• trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay - Sumo term
• senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)
• important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

expression:

• take care of yourself before you take care of others; wave off your own flies before you wave off somebody else's flies [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Chinese-style low dining table ➜ 卓袱台
• Japanese-Chinese cuisine, served family-style (large dishes, diners help themselves), specialty of Nagasaki Chinese style low dining table - abbreviation ➜ 卓袱料理
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - often 志っぽく - Kansai dialect ➜ お亀【おかめ】

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun:

• National Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
• Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947) - abbreviation ➜ 帝国議会【ていこくぎかい】
• legislative assembly; parliament; congress ➜ 議会

noun:

• lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room
• cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 火鉢

noun:

• front and rear; front and back; before and behind; back and forth
• before and after

suffix noun:

• around; about; approximately

noun:

• order; context
• consequences
• just when; around the time of

noun / ~する noun:

• inversion; reversion; getting out of order
• co-occurring

expression / noun:

• Day of the Rat (esp. the first Day of the Rat in the New Year)
• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots - abbreviation ➜ 子の日の遊び
• pine shoot pulled out in such a manner ➜ 子の日の松

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to pledge allegiance; to swear an oath of allegiance; to take an oath of allegiance

noun / ~の noun:

• taking care of one's responsibilities by oneself; one's own efforts; one's own expense
• going into business for oneself (selling one's own products); entrepreneur of such a business

noun:

• prajna; wisdom required to attain enlightenment - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "prajñā"
• noh mask of a grinning, horned demoness (represents a woman's rage and jealousy) ➜ 般若面【はんにゃめん】
• family crest designed after the Hannya noh mask
• dreadful face (esp. of a woman driven mad by jealousy); terrifying facial expression - abbreviation ➜ 般若面【はんにゃづら】

noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and not having called any tiles (yaku); having only tiles of one suit and a concealed hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ メンゼン・清一色