noun:

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

noun:

• guricha; Japanese green tea similar to gunpowder tea ➜ 玉緑茶

noun:

• Maru-ship; Japanese ship (because Japanese ship names often end in Maru)

noun:

• romaji; romanized Japanese; system of transliterating Japanese into the Latin alphabet
• Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet ➜ ラテン文字【ラテンもじ】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to incline; to lean; to tip; to tilt; to slant; to bend; to list
• to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to pour one's energy into
• to ruin; to squander; to empty
• to drink (alcohol)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to recognize; to recognise; to observe; to notice
• to deem; to judge; to assess
• to approve; to deem acceptable; to allow
• to admit; to accept; to confess (to a charge)
• to watch steadily; to observe carefully
• to renown; to give renown to; to appreciate; to acknowledge

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• controversy over school textbooks (i.e. history texts avoiding reference to Japanese military, etc. acts)

noun:

• Japanese wobbegong (Orectolobus japonicus, species of carpet shark); Japanese carpet shark; fringe shark

noun:

• book in Japanese
• book bound in the Japanese style ➜ 和本

adjectival noun / noun:

• minor; small; unimportant; obscure Antonym: メジャー

noun:

• minor league - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ マイナーリーグ
• minor (key, scale, mode, etc.) - Music term
• miner

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to build up; to establish - esp. 成す
• to form; to become (a state) - esp. 成す
• to accomplish; to achieve; to succeed in
• to change into
• to do; to perform - esp. 為す

auxiliary verb:

• to intend to; to attempt; to try - archaism

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜

noun:

• dwarf Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica); (Japanese) flowering quince; Maule's quince; japonica ➜ 木瓜【ぼけ】

noun:

• daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) (primarily used in context of the seven spring herbs) - obscure term ➜ 大根・春の七草

noun / ~の noun:

• animated film; animated cartoon; anime (when referring to Japanese cartoons)
• animation - abbreviation ➜ アニメーション

noun:

• Nagoya harp; Taishō koto; Japanese harp with two to five strings

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to blame; to reproach; to censure; to rebuke; to reprove; to find fault; to take to task; to criticize; to criticise
• to question (a suspect); to challenge

ichidan verb:

• to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated; to get inflamed

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to prick (one's conscience) ➜ 気が咎める

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to condemn; to blame; to criticize; to criticise; to reproach; to accuse
• to urge; to press; to pester
• to torture; to torment; to persecute
• to break in (a horse)

noun:

• former rank in the Japanese army and navy, equiv. to private first-class, lance corporal, etc. ➜ 士長

noun:

• 007 (James Bond's code in the books and films); double-oh-seven

noun:

• paulownia crest (three leaves with seven blossoms on the center lead and five blossoms on each side leaf)

noun:

• baby's play pen; play yard
• Pleiad; La Pléiade; one of a group of seven 16th century French poets - From French

noun:

• the seven treasures and many other precious things; all the treasures in the world - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to think; to consider; to believe - 想う has connotations of heart-felt
• to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
• to judge; to assess; to regard
• to imagine; to suppose; to dream
• to expect; to look forward to
• to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want
• to recall; to remember