noun:

• merchant; trader
• expert (professional) in a given trade or profession; shrewd businessman; expert
• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine ➜ 商売女・水商売

noun:

• hiring from another company; recruitment; scouting; headhunting
• quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume)
• drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)

noun / ~する noun:

• cancellation; writing off (a debt)
• indicating a long sound in kana ➜ 長音【ちょうおん】

noun:

• tug o' war; tug of war

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance)

noun:

• musicians' box on the left side of the stage
• lower seat ➜ 下座【しもざ】

noun:

• distinguished family; noted family; noble family
• family status in the Imperial Court ➜ 家格
• master (of a craft); expert

noun:

• Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)
• trap door located on the walkway in a kabuki theatre ［すっぽん］
• bilge pump (used on traditional Japanese ships) ［すっぽん］

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いけじめ］
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いけしめ
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いけしめ

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be disoriented by
• to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)
• to become dark - archaism

noun:

• black soybean ➜ 黒豆
• soybeans boiled in sugary water
• pea - obscure term ➜ エンドウマメ

noun:

• flat ground
• seats immediately in front of the stage (e.g. in kabuki) ➜ 平土間【ひらどま】
• multi-brand display area (in a shop)

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

noun:

• wipe (film transition)
• picture-in-picture; PiP
• wipe; tissue; cloth

expression:

• to be a quick worker - idiom ➜ 手の早い
• to be fast in forming relationships with women - idiom
• to be quick to resort to violence - idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perversity; perverse person; contrary person; contrarian

noun:

• antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore
• demon under the feet of temple guardian statues

noun:

• six feet ［六尺］
• traditional Japanese G-string for men ［六尺］ - abbreviation ➜ 六尺褌
• palanquin bearer - esp. 陸尺

noun:

• taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things
• starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sell well; to sell out
• to be in order
• to be sociable; to be worldly and understanding

godan ~う verb:

• to pray that one avoids disaster or illness; to pray - archaism
• to pray for the death or misfortune of another; to curse
• to treat illness with prayer

noun:

• ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip
• walking in large steps
• walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg

noun / suffix noun:

• lattice - Mathematics term

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish)
• handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)

noun:

• the dharma eye - Buddhism term ➜ 五眼
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism - abbreviation
• title bestowed upon doctors, etc. - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show; to display; to flash
• to dangle (an offer) in front of; to hold out; to indirectly hint at; to intimate; to obliquely suggest; to allude to; to imply
• to send flurries (of snow, etc.)

noun:

• bench used by kabuki actors during performance ［合い引き・合引き］
• for enemies and allies to pull back their troops at the same time
• responding to enemy arrow fire with arrow fire

noun / ~する noun:

• open-air tea ceremony
• aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin
• something standing in the open