a pseudonym, an alias, sobriquet, pen name / in feudal Japan, a public name given to boys upon coming of age, after which their birth names would be kept private

a target, a mark, a bullseye / an objective, an object (of doing something)

as far as ... is concerned; in terms of ...

Shinto rice cake.

the traditional collation order for the Japanese language consistent with the いろは歌 (Iroha Uta) pangrammatic poem, nowadays dated, having been replaced by the 五十音順 (gojūon-jun, “fifty sounds order”)

smaller kana printed next to (vertical) or above (horizontal) non-kana text as pronunciation guide

okurigana: in written Japanese, the kana added after a kanji to indicate inflection endings, such as the べる (-beru) in 食(た)べる (taberu, “to eat”)

passive, inactive, timid

Man'yōgana, the early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana

hentaigana: any of the hiragana made obsolete in Meiji-era reforms that enforced having one hiragana for each syllable