noun:

• the three main gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children - Shintō term

noun:

• taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make lively; to become animated; to have fun talking about something ➜ 話に花を咲かせる
• to become successful and well known

expression:

• it's hard to please everybody; damned if you do and damned if you don't - proverb

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

noun:

• koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres
• measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

noun / ~する noun:

• mixture; intermixture; mixing up; jumbling together
• contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term

noun:

• adipocere; grave wax; greying of the body fats of a corpse which rests in a moist but airless place (graying)

noun:

• taste (in goods, etc.)
• manners; etiquette
• modesty; restraint; prudence
• knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.); accomplishments
• taking care of one's personal appearance

noun:

• retainer; attendant - archaism
• Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight) ［おみ］ ➜ 八色の姓
• I; me ［しん］ - used by a servant when speaking to their master - humble language

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

noun:

• chasing down; pushing down; deposing; ousting
• sacrificing to create a shortage of liberties, then capturing (in the game of go)

noun / ~する noun:

• calculation; computation; counting; reckoning; count
• bill; check; account; payment (of a bill); settlement (of an account)
• consideration; allowance

noun:

• group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school; swarm; cluster (e.g. of stars); clump; pack (e.g. of dogs)

noun:

• household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); innkeeper; owner (e.g. of an hotel)
• husband

noun / ~する noun:

• grant; bestowal; giving something to someone of low social standing (by a person of very high social standing)

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• realization of a great ambition; attainment of one's most cherished desire; one's earnest prayer being answered - four character idiom

noun:

• unknown (e.g. in an equation) - Mathematics term
• element (of a set) - Mathematics term
• yuan (monetary unit of China)
• Yuan dynasty (China)

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• category killer; retailer that sells a wide selection of a given category of goods - Business term

noun:

• shrill voice
• unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting - usu. 素声 ➜ 平曲
• part of an unaccompanied poem (in noh)

noun:

• sliteye shark (Loxodon macrorhinus, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• dance recital praising Buddha, which accompanies the recital of a gatha (in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) ➜ 偈

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term