expression / noun:

• beads of sweat

noun:

• tamaryokucha; Japanese green tea similar to gunpowder tea ➜ ぐり茶

noun:

• egg dishes; food prepared with eggs

noun:

• eggshell

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭

noun:

• fetching balls
• ball boy

expression / noun:

• skin as beautiful as a gem; beautiful skin

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

noun:

• ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)

noun:

• slinging (on cranes, etc.)

noun:

• stagnant water

noun:

• kanji "jewel" radical at left (radical 96) - as in 珠

noun:

• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) - obscure term ➜ 時鳥

noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

noun:

• curtain made of strung beads

~の noun:

• egg-sized

noun:

• dupion (double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms); dupioni
• cocoon

noun:

• tamago kake gohan; raw egg mixed with white rice, often seasoned with soy sauce

noun:

• alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)

noun:

• gathering spot; haunt; rendezvous; meeting place; hang-out

noun:

• cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

noun:

• fence around a shrine

noun:

• yellowish colour (color)

expression / noun:

• fly in the ointment - idiom

noun:

• mausoleum; (temporary) resting place of a corpse