noun:

• slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen)

noun / ~する noun:

• verification of the authenticity of a document (e.g. by seal or handwriting) - obscure term

noun:

• employee of an association, society, etc. (but not of government or a corporation)

noun:

• hamburger (meat, no bun); beefburger; Hamburg steak

noun:

• Imperial regalia (esp. the jewel Yasakani no Magatama) ➜ 八尺瓊勾玉
• emperor's seal

noun:

• cemetery for those who left no relatives behind; potter's field - four character idiom

adverb:

• inadvertently; for no special reason - colloquialism
• truthfully; unexpectedly
• after realizing; without knowing

adjective:

• it cannot be helped; there is no way ➜ どうしようもない
• intolerable; unbearable - archaism

noun:

• U-shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers ➜ 握り鋏

noun:

• hazard area (flood, tsunami, etc.); danger zone; no man's land

expression:

• no matter what; whatever you say; in the end; after all ➜ なんてったって

expression:

• it cannot be helped; there is no other way

noun:

• feeding an infant solely with breast milk (i.e. no formula) - abbreviation ➜ 完全母乳【かんぜんぼにゅう】

noun:

• feeding an infant solely with breast milk (i.e. no formula)

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

adverbial noun / ~する noun:

• in full force; in great numbers; in droves

noun:

• large-scale project; grand plan

noun:

• Oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum); eastern collared pratincole; large Indian pratincole; swallow-plover

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:

• the hill back of one's home; hill back from the seashore

noun:

• genuine product; official product; accessory product from the manufacturer of the main product - IT term

noun:

• transcendent world; world outside of the material world; somewhere removed from the world

noun:

• Garibaldi damselfish (Hypsypops rubicundus, damselfish found from Monterey Bay California to Guadalupe Island Baja California); official state marine fish of California

noun:

• errand; mission; going as envoy ➜ 使いにやる
• messenger; bearer; errand boy; errand girl
• familiar spirit ➜ 使い魔

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• use; usage; user; trainer; tamer; charmer - often read as づかい when used as a suffix ➜ 魔法使い

noun / ~する noun:

• coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance)

noun:

• musicians' box on the left side of the stage
• lower seat ➜ 下座【しもざ】

noun:

• upper tier; upper section; upper deck; upper row; upper step; upper grade; upper berth; top shelf
• place of honor; place of honour ➜ 上座
• dais; raised part of floor ➜ 上段の間
• overhead position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)