noun:

• place by the lamp; area under the lamp

noun:

• funeral service of a Japanese emperor - abbreviation ➜ 大喪の礼【たいそうのれい】
• Imperial mourning - archaism

noun:

• attributive form (of a Japanese verb or adjective)) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• coming to Japan (of a non-Japanese person)

expression:

• the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 [literal]

noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

noun:

• file wrapper for a patent; correspondence about the status of a patent between the inventor and the patent office

noun / ~の noun:

• darkness; the dark; dark
• bewilderment; despair; hopelessness
• black-marketeering; shady; illegal; under-the-table

noun:

• sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument
• someone's ability to play the shamisen

noun / ~の noun:

• rising rapidly (e.g. prices, popularity); soaring; skyrocketing; going through the roof

noun:

• classification of Japanese words by their origin as Japanese, Chinese or Western

noun:

• the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace

adverb:

• sound of a small wave hitting the shore; sound of a whip; sound of a slap - onomatopoeia

noun:

• any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica)

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

noun:

• endpaper (of a book); end-paper
• facing (material sewn on the inside edge of a garment)
• looking back; triumphing over (a rival) ➜ 見返す

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

noun:

• muteness; speech impairment
• mute; deaf-mute ［おし・おうし］ - sensitive

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

suffix noun:

• a little over; a little more than
• powerhouse; one of the biggest; one of the most powerful

noun:

• China under the Manchus

~の noun / noun:

• sublingual; under the tongue