noun:

• fleeting life; this transient world; floating world
• sad world; world of grief and worry - esp. 憂き世
• the world of the living; this life; this world; the present world
• (the world of the) red light districts

noun:

• lower floor; downstairs Antonym: 階上
• bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs Antonym: 階上【かいじょう】

noun / prefix noun:

• paltry amount of money; cheapness; worthlessness

noun:

• three one-mon coins - orig. meaning

noun:

• beginning of spring
• first month of the lunar calendar; New Year ➜ 睦月

noun:

• sleepiness; drowsiness
• the sandman; Morpheus

noun:

• (a) jump
• splashes (usu. of mud)
• upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo) - often 撥ね
• close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup

noun / ~する noun:

• theatrical blackout
• taking a turn for the worse

noun:

• breast; chest
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium

noun:

• loading
• stacking the wall of tiles to one's advantage - Mahjong term

noun:

• journey; trip; travels

noun / adverbial noun:

• during the journey; on the way; while travelling

noun / ~する noun:

• monk's "begging"; religious mendicancy; asking for alms
• going with one's bowl to the meditation hall at mealtime (in a Zen temple) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• detention; keeping; retaining
• mail held at the post office - abbreviation ➜ 留置郵便

noun:

• revised edition (of a book or manuscript); authoritative edition; standard edition; edition incorporating many changes and corrections
• final version of a book as edited by the author; revised edition of a book as edited by the author

noun:

• member of parliament
• the elite

noun:

• being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets)
• going in one ear and out the other

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to slash back
• to strike back; to counterattack; to retort
• to cut the wheel
• to perform a twisting backward knee trip - Sumo term ➜ 切り返し

adverbial noun / noun:

• late summer
• sixth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term ➜ 水無月

noun:

• sharing a room; dormitory room
• match between wrestlers from the same stable - Sumo term

noun:

• teasing; chaffing; raillery; ridicule; jeering

noun / ~の noun:

• merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping; browsing

noun:

• spirit of a deceased person - honorific language
• the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit ［みたま］ - honorific language ➜ 聖霊

noun:

• inner palace (reserved for women); harem; seraglio ➜ 七殿・五舎
• consort of the emperor

noun:

• fireball; ball of fire
• will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern

noun / ~する noun:

• shoulder massage (performed by tapotement)
• tap on the shoulder (request to resign)

noun:

• chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook - Kantō dialect ➜ 板場【いたば】
• area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board - orig. meaning

noun:

• great evil
• scum of the earth; monster; fiend