noun:

• young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.)

suffix noun / noun:

• girl ➜ 彦

prefix:

• small; cute; lesser (in names of species)

noun:

• prostitute - archaism - Kyōto dialect

noun:

• advancing money; temporary payment for someone else; payment on behalf of another party, with the expectation of being reimbursed later

suffix:

• (strongly emphatic) too preoccupied or busy to even think of ...; ... is out of the question; this is not an occasion for

noun:

• type of sōmen made without added oil; specialty of Miyagi prefecture, usu. eaten in broth, esp. warm in winter - Food term ➜ 素麺【そうめん】

noun:

• Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)

noun:

• circumference; outskirts; environs; around; in the area of; in the vicinity of
• (computer) peripheral - IT term

noun:

• (former) Ministry of Finance (1869-2001) ➜ 財務省
• Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• incarnation (of Buddha or bodhisattva); avatar - Buddhism term ➜ 実化
• embodiment (as in "embodiment of evil"); incarnation; personification

noun / ~する noun:

• accumulation (e.g. of emotions, grievances, etc.); buildup; suppression (e.g. of anger)

noun:

• the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects) ➜ 七賢人
• Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ➜ 竹林の七賢

noun:

• drinker; person fond of alcohol (as opposed to sweets) ➜ 甘党
• person fond of spicy food - colloquialism

noun:

• ear (e.g. of wheat) ［穂先］
• tip (e.g. of brush or spear); spearhead ➜ 矛先【ほこさき】

expression:

• in consideration of; in deference to; out of respect for; for (someone's) sake - as ...に免じて

noun / ~する noun:

• possession (of what is required); fulfilment (of conditions); being equipped with; being endowed with

noun:

• group of mountain nomads (in Japan); group of mountain people; the Sanka

noun:

• scenic beauty of mountains and streams; fresh and clear beauty of nature's splendor - four character idiom

noun:

• the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other - four character idiom

noun:

• hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata)
• Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)

noun:

• Kannon (Bodhisattva); Kwannon; Goddess of Mercy; Bodhisattva of Compassion; Guan Yin; Kuan Yin ➜ 観音・観世音

noun / ~する noun:

• varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor ➜ ブラックツリーモニター

noun:

• peacock monitor (Varanus auffenbergi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the island of Roti in Indonesia); Auffenberg's monitor

noun:

• Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• trouble; bother
• number of moves (in go, shogi, etc.) ［てかず］
• number of punches (in boxing) ［てかず］

adverb / noun:

• whatever; what; what sort of; any kind of
• nothing whatever (with neg. verb)