noun:

• inner pleat; the raising of fabric up in the middle to marry bottom edges of yukata and kimono

noun:

• banishment (to a somewhat distant province); middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• student at the same middle school; graduate of the same middle school - colloquialism

noun:

• wokou; wakou; Japanese pirates of the Middle Ages

noun / ~する noun:

• omission (of middle part of a text); ellipsis

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages) - abbreviation ➜ 印地打ち

noun:

• middle day (e.g sumo tournament, run of theatrical performances, etc.)

noun:

• book of hours (devotional book popular in the Middle Ages)

noun:

• middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school ➜ 高等部

noun:

• 36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)

noun:

• middle pine tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• Tilapia (large genus of cichlid fish in the Cichlidae family endemic to Africa and the Middle East)

noun:

• confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika) - obscure term

noun:

• middle-sized Japanese amberjack (species of yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata) - Kantō dialect ➜ 鰤

noun:

• lower government office (ritsuryo system)
• servant of a higher ranking person (during the middle ages); retainer
• servant of an urban family
• serf ➜ 被官百姓

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• Zen (Buddhism) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 禅宗
• confusing style of middle-age Japanese poetry - derogatory term ➜ 達磨歌

noun:

• family affairs; family business
• steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)

noun:

• the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager ➜ 三后
• emperor's second consort
• empress; palace of the empress
• building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground
• demesne of the imperial palace ➜ 皇居

noun:

• whole year; all year round; throughout the year

adverb:

• always; all the time; perpetually ［ねんじゅう・ねんぢゅう］

noun:

• during an era
• middle class (of a nursery school, etc.) ［ねんちゅう］