noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

noun:

• using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)

noun:

• the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects - abbreviation ➜ 八宗
• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian ➜ 入唐八家

noun:

• baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood - Buddhism term
• baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• pouring water onto a gravestone - Buddhism term
• teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

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• Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa) ［あずさ・アズサ］ ➜ 夜糞峰榛
• yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata) ［あずさ・アズサ］ ➜ キササゲ
• Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus) ［あずさ・アズサ］ ➜ 赤芽柏
• printing block
• catalpa bow ［あずさ］ - abbreviation ➜ 梓弓
• catalpa medium ［あずさ］ - abbreviation ➜ 梓巫女

noun / ~の noun:

• the whole sheet; the whole newspaper

noun:

• specialist newspaper; trade journal; specialist journal

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

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• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with six verses in a 5-7-7-5-7-7 moraic pattern

noun:

• beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥諷詠
• artistic pursuits involving nature themes

noun:

• entrance (i.e. of a Japanese house) ➜ 上がり口
• start of a rise (e.g. in prices)

noun:

• deserted house; ruined house

noun / ~する noun:

• abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family

noun:

• Japanese garden juniper; dwarf Japanese garden juniper; Juniperus procumbens; J. chinensis var. procumbens ➜ 這柏槇

noun:

• autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora); Japanese shield fern; Japanese wood fern; copper shield fern

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

noun:

• Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps, Artemisia indica var. maximowiczii)
• general term for plants in the Artemisia genus; mugwort; sagebrush; wormwood

noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• publication; issue (of journal, newspaper, etc.)
• issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.)
• raising an event (software) - IT term

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); comfort women [literal] - euphemism ➜ 従軍慰安婦

noun:

• wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll

noun:

• marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens) ［マーガレット］
• Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)

noun:

• Japanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan; wasei eigo

noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)