noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• promotional model (at a trade show, etc.); female guide (at a convention); booth babe
• hostess (of a party, banquet, etc.)
• companion - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• open-air tea ceremony
• aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin
• something standing in the open

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time)

noun:

• no game; game that is stopped before it can be considered an official game (e.g. due to rainout) - Baseball term

adjective:

• petty; small-minded; stingy; cheap (as in cheap shot, cheating, skirting the rules, etc.)

noun:

• digging for sweet potatoes (esp. as an outing)
• sweet potato digger

noun:

• stockpile rice (kept by the government to use as emergency provisions); reserved rice

noun / adjectival noun:

• free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• freely; in complete control of; with complete freedom; at will; as one pleases - four character idiom

noun:

• normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people

noun:

• punctuation words in haiku, renga, etc. such as "ya", "kana", "keri", etc.

noun:

• treating someone (to food or drink); entertaining someone (as one's guest) - archaism

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• one season
• one year (esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 半季

noun:

• Western medicine (as introduced to Japan by the Dutch during the Edo period)

noun:

• British North America Act (now known as the Constitution Act 1867)

ichidan verb:

• to cook (esp. grains such as rice, by boiling); to finish cooking

adjectival noun / noun:

• willful; wilful; selfish; self-centered; egoistic
• carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling; free spirited

noun:

• condiment (e.g. grated or chopped topping such as daikon, wasabi, ginger, green onion, red pepper); spice

noun:

• country's official writing system; native script
• kana ➜ 仮名【かな】
• kanji that originated in Japan (as opposed to China) ➜ 漢字

noun:

• the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 易行道

noun:

• diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes

noun:

• stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side
• rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.

noun:

• ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip ➜ 禹歩
• dance steps inspired by this ceremony

noun:

• on-stage performance by musicians in a kabuki play
• shamisen accompaniment when a performer (esp. a rakugo story teller) appears on stage