noun:

• sweet potato (any of a number of different cultivars with red skin)

noun:

• grounds of a Shinto shrine
• enchanted land; abode of immortals and gods

noun:

• øre; Danish or Norwegian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krone - From Danish or Norwegian ➜ クローネ
• öre; Swedish monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krona - From Swedish ➜ クローナ

noun:

• using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem

noun:

• the sun; sunlight; heat of the sun

noun:

• same period of last year; the same month a year ago; year-ago month

noun:

• one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be under control; to burn down; to decline; to drop; to wane

adjectival noun / noun:

• no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken
• hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless
• cannot; must not; not allowed

noun:

• neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

noun:

• speedrun; playing through a video game for additional challenge (e.g. as quickly as possible, to obtain the highest score, without using a certain weapon, etc.) ➜ やり込み【やりこみ】

noun:

• count; earl
• chief official of the Department of Worship ➜ 神祇官
• eldest brother - archaism

noun / prefix noun / suffix noun:

• Brazil; Brazilian - abbreviation ➜ 伯剌西爾【ブラジル】

noun:

• on the wane (e.g. popularity of something); decline of one's fortunes

noun:

• attaching (of seaweed or seed oysters) to nets for the purpose of cultivation

noun:

• Thalassoma (genus of brightly colored fish of the wrasse family Labridae)

noun:

• Atelomycterus; genus of five species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae

noun:

• Ephippus (genus of 2 species of spadefish in the family Ephippidae)

noun:

• Jataka; collection of texts on the early lives of Buddha (4th century BCE) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

noun:

• driving on the left side of the road; driving on the left-hand side of the road; left-hand side driving ➜ 右側通行

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary inspection; having a look in advance
• preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes)

noun:

• siding (on a house); clapboard; weatherboard ➜ 下見板【したみいた】

noun:

• game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism

noun:

• humorous mask of a homely woman's face (characterized by a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks)

noun:

• corsage; small bouquet worn by a woman - From French
• bodice of a woman's dress - archaism

noun:

• scarcity of eligible women; difficulty for a man to find a woman; woman shortage ➜ 男旱【おとこひでり】

noun:

• scarcity of eligible men; difficulty for a woman to find a man; man shortage ➜ 女ひでり【おんなひでり】