pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ あんな

noun:

• white vinegar; plum vinegar made without perilla ➜ ホワイトビネガー・梅酢【うめず】
• dressing consisting of a dashi-diluted mixture of vinegar, ground sesame, tofu, sugar and salt - Food term

noun:

• clear and serene (as a polished mirror and still water) - four character idiom

noun:

• A, B, C and D; first, second, third and fourth

noun:

• deep design and forethought; a farsighted and deeply-laid plan - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being protean and elusive; appear and disappear like a phantom - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• prosperity and decay; prosperity and decline; rise and fall; ups and downs; ebb and flow; waxing and waning

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

noun:

• geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl
• dressed-up beautiful woman

noun:

• aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement ➜ 閑寂枯淡

particle:

• at (place, time); in; on; during
• to (direction, state); toward; into
• for (purpose)
• because of (reason); for; with
• by; from
• as (i.e. in the role of) ➜ として
• per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
• and; in addition to
• if; although - archaism

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

noun:

• tail and fins
• embellishment (of a story, rumor, etc.); exaggeration

noun / ~する noun:

• reorganization (e.g. of a company); reorganisation; consolidation; scrap-and-build

noun:

• same singular and plural form (of a noun) (e.g. sheep)

~の noun / noun:

• speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)

noun:

• marbling (of beef) ➜ 霜降り肉
• (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water - abbreviation ➜ 霜降り作り
• formation of frost - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

noun:

• area of a soccer pitch between the penalty area and the centre ring (of tactical importance) - Sports term - From English "vital area"

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

noun:

• Abenomics; economic and monetary policies of Shinzo Abe, 90th and 96th prime minister of Japan, during his second term

noun:

• Japanese and Chinese poetry
• poetry; poems

noun / ~の noun:

• Japan and North Korea; Japanese-North Korean

noun / ~の noun:

• sizes (various); large and small
• daisho (matched pair of long and short swords)
• large and small drums
• long months and short months

noun:

• sic bo (Macau dice game); tai sai; dai siu; big and small

noun:

• Japanese and Chinese medicine; oriental medicine