noun / ~の noun:

• eastern direction
• the Orient

noun:

• eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling) ［ひがしかた・ひがしがた］ - Martial Arts term

noun / suffix noun:

• ratio; proportion

noun:

• match; equal
• explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義
• Philippines - abbreviation ➜ 比律賓

suffix noun:

• in comparison with ... - after a noun

suffix:

• through; throughout; in the course of
• all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

noun:

• cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive (drastic) measure; cutting the (Gordian) knot - four character idiom

noun:

• reader (person)
• person who reads the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 取り手
• composer (of a poem) - also written as 詠み手 ➜ 詠み手【よみて】

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• Hayagriva (manifestation of Avalokitesvara with an ornament in the shape of a horse's head) - Buddhism term ➜ 観世音

noun:

• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); cuttlefish (any species in the family Sepiidae)

noun:

• knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; fetters
• arrest
• rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)

noun:

• partner (esp. in manzai); companion ［相方］ ➜ 漫才
• partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun:

• Vietcong; Viet Cong (communist guerrilla soldiers who fought in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War)

noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

noun / ~する noun:

• going along with something; following the crowd
• treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner

noun:

• Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri); sand lamprey (species found in the Northwest Pacific)

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• moon
• Tsukuyomi (god of the moon in Shinto and mythology)

noun:

• chronixis surgeonfish (Acanthurus chronixis, Western-Pacific species of tang from Kapingamarangi in the Caroline Islands)

noun:

• Nebrius; genus of a single species of nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae

noun:

• Mitsukurina (genus of only living species of goblin shark in the family Mitsukurinidae)

noun:

• spot-tail shark (Carcharhinus sorrah, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus, species of requiem shark common in the western Atlantic)

noun:

• night shark (Carcharhinus signatus, species of nocturnally active requiem shark found in the Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• Brazilian sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon lalandii, species of requiem shark found in the western Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• grey sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon oligolinx, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)