noun:

• bayonet
• guns and swords

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

noun:

• itinerant priest; wandering monk; mendicant
• clouds and water

noun:

• outlaw
• low and away (pitch) - Baseball term - From English "out low"

noun:

• German silver; nickel silver
• silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods

godan ~ぐ verb:

• to be mutually bitter; to argue together; to quarrel
• to resent and bemoan

noun:

• female cook; kitchenmaid
• woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses - archaism

noun:

• bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger - esp. しっぺ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• eldest child; oldest child; first-born child
• child who carries on the family name
• pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces - archaism ➜ 律令制・総領【すべおさ】
• head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period) - archaism

noun:

• appetite
• distinction between what is thought and what is said

noun:

• exhibition game; friendly match; friendly - Sports term
• interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues - Sports term ➜ セ・パ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to steal; to rob; to snatch; to pocket; to plunder
• to deceive; to trick; to cheat
• to graze (in passing); to skim; to brush against; to touch lightly
• to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.); to flit (through one's mind, across one's face)
• to do (something) while no one is looking - often as 目をかすめて
• to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate - archaism

noun:

• pebbles; gravel
• boulder formed from gravel and sediment

noun:

• flowering tree
• Japanese red maple (Acer pycnanthum)

noun:

• slotted dome cast iron grill for preparing the Genghis Khan dish
• Japanese mutton and vegetable dish ➜ ジンギス汗料理

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• foolproof; idiot-proof - sensitive
• point-and-shoot (camera) - colloquialism - sensitive ➜ 馬鹿チョンカメラ

noun:

• feng shui; fengshui
• wind and water

noun:

• beautiful scenery of spring - four character idiom
• red-light district

noun:

• Kyoto's children
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• narrow-waisted

noun:

• red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa) - abbreviation ➜ 腰細蜂

noun:

• horse native to Hokkaido
• person born and raised in Hokkaido

noun:

• translation (esp. in court); interpretation
• Edo-era translation of Dutch and Chinese

noun:

• government property
• taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the governement (ritsuryo system) ［かんもつ］