- (n-adv) these days
 now
 recently
 
- (n) flaked bonito
 (P)
 
- (n) three-section staff 
- (n) the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927) 
- (n) mission
 delegation
 
- (n) Lent 
- (n) the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948) 
- (n) knuckle 
- (n-adv,n) in these times 
- (n) Lent 
- (n) (ling) subordinate clause 
- (n) baby's first annual festival 
- (n) baby's first annual festival 
- (n) small paragraph (WNN) 
- (adj-na,n) ganglion
 ganglia
 
- (n) style of joruri narrative performance 
- (n) boiled and half-dried bonito 
- (adv,n) occasionally
 at times
 the season
 from time to time
 
- (vs-s) to be moderate of
 to save
 to curtail
 
- (n) (1) (arch) space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.)
 (2) a short time
 
- (n) melody
 intonation
 
- (n) made of knotted silk 
- (exp) successive teacher
 successive master
 
- (n) coal (fuel) economizer
 coal economiser
 
- (n) (musical) intonation marks 
- (n,vs) setting to music
 composition
 
- (n) pennypincher
 saver
 frugal person
 
- (n) a Muromachi era Japanese dictionary 
- (n) sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen 
- (n) former section (stanza)