noun:

• grain thief; sharpened tube for testing rice in bags - abbreviation ➜ 米刺し
• sashimi (sliced raw fish) - abbreviation ➜ 刺身
• stabbing; piercing; pricking ➜ 刺す・刺す

noun:

• humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue
• duty
• formal greeting (between gamblers) - perhaps derived from 辞儀 ➜ 辞儀【じんぎ】・仁義を切る
• (gang's) moral code

noun / adjectival noun:

• pastime; hobby; favorite amusement

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• dissipation; debauchery; loose living; prodigality; indulging in alcohol, women, gambling, etc.; profligacy - derogatory term ➜ 道楽息子・道楽娘

noun:

• one mountain
• pile (of something); heap; lot (in sale)
• hump; worst part
• large profit; killing ➜ 一山当てる【ひとやまあてる】

noun:

• utility
• room with sink, washing machine, etc. in a house or apartment

noun:

• utility room (with sink, washing machine, etc. in a house or apartment)

noun:

• legend; tradition
• biography; life
• method; way
• horseback transportation and communication relay system used in ancient Japan

noun:

• imperturbability; steadfastness
• cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight) - Martial Arts term

adverb:

• briefly; in general; roughly; from beginning to end; through (e.g. glancing, flipping) ➜ 一通り【ひととおり】

noun:

• makizushi; sushi made rolled in nori seaweed with a core of filling - Food term

noun:

• nama-fu; wheat gluten mixed with rice flour and steamed in large blocks - Food term ➜ 麸【ふ】

~と adverb / adverb:

• growing light (e.g. at dawn)
• pale
• appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way

noun:

• thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan; sukiyaki ➜ すきやき

noun:

• udo (plant related to ginseng, used in medicine and cooking) (Aralia cordata)

noun:

• undeveloped woodland near populated area
• settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes

noun:

• sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance - four character idiom

noun:

• corn dog (frankfurter on a stick dipped in batter and deep-fried) - From English "American dog"

noun:

• vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste, esp. with lots of liquid - Food term ➜ 糠味噌漬け
• hot-dip galvanizing - colloquialism - Engineering term

noun:

• pail-like wooden container typically lacquered in Japanese style, used for holding and serving hot liquids

noun:

• Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938)

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki ➜ 鮑結び
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

noun:

• Chypre fragrance (family of scents including sage, lavender, and oak moss, used in perfumes)

noun:

• dragon's blood palm (Daemonorops draco); bright red resin used in medicine, dyes, etc. ➜ 竜血樹

noun:

• preserving in alcohol
• pickling one's liver; drinking incessantly; being a souse

noun:

• clapper (two long pieces of wood that are clapped together; used in gagaku, etc.)