noun:

• age (expressed in the Western style of counting fully completed years)

noun:

• reticulated swellshark (Cephaloscyllium fasciatum, species of catshark from the Western Pacific)

noun:

• nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); foreigner of Japanese parentage

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• the Second (king, etc. of the same name); second generation; junior

noun:

• son - colloquialism

noun:

• sweet adzuki bean paste made of a mixture of mashed and whole beans

noun:

• mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers)
• landscape picture ［さんすい］ - abbreviation ➜ 山水画
• mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain
• garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond ［さんすい］ ➜ 築山

noun / ~する noun:

• heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse - four character idiom

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

noun:

• a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

noun:

• small fish sliced open and pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sake, and salt - Food term
• seafood pickled in soy (esp. squid) - Food term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to distinguish in writing; to use different writing styles ［書き分ける］
• to draw (identifiably) - usu. 描き分ける

noun:

• Japanese characters; kanji and kana

noun:

• Japan and Germany; Japanese-German

noun:

• Japanese-Chinese; Japan and China

noun:

• Japan and Italy; Japanese-Italian

noun:

• Japan and India; Japanese-Indian

noun:

• Japan and Europe; Japanese-European

noun:

• Russia and Japan; Russian-Japanese

noun:

• Japan and Russia; Japanese-Russian

noun:

• (Japanese) Darby and Joan dolls ➜ 高砂・高砂の松

noun:

• playing shogi with a handicap of the rook and bishop
• participating in a contest while missing key players, pieces, etc.

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun:

• Yemen monitor (Varanus yemenensis, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found at the base of the Tihama mountains along the western coast of Yemen)

noun:

• official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period)
• titled lady (legal wife of an important official) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 北の政所
• government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods)
• clerk working for large temples and shrines

noun:

• Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth; flag of the Republic of China