noun:

• chancy trade (business) with a high turnover rate and uncertain profitability
• the entertainment, eating, and drinking business
• the night entertainment (nightlife) business

noun / ~する noun:

• payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment ➜ 前払い
• payment on delivery (e.g. business-reply mail, collect phone calls) ➜ 着払い【ちゃくばらい】

noun:

• forerunner

noun:

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

noun:

• life-sized doll used for masturbation - From English "Dutch wife"
• cage (rattan or cane) used in bed in the tropics
• bolster used for warmth when sleeping

noun:

• line-out (rugby); lineout - Sports term
• becoming out by running more than 3 feet outside the base line - Baseball term
• line out (signal)

noun:

• backstop - Baseball term ➜ バックネット
• protection at the rear
• assistant; lieutenant

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］

expression / noun:

• coming to nothing ➜ 水泡
• bubble on the surface of water
• something that is short-lived

numeric:

• 108; one hundred and eight

noun:

• the number of kleshas, worldly thoughts and passions - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩
• the sum of 12 months, 24 seasons of the solar year, and 72 'climates' of one year ➜ 七十二候・節気

interjection:

• heigh-hoh; heave-ho
• hold on!; just a minute
• used as a meaningless word in a song for rhythm

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

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:

• a show; blood-stained mucus discharge that happens during pregnancy up to two weeks before delivery ➜ 破水
• signature mark (crest) used by members of the Imperial family to mark their belongings
• a sign (with honorific 'o') ➜ しるし

noun:

• appearing rustic
• ancient song played at the court
• comical tanka ➜ 狂歌

noun:

• great and splendid land (of Yamato)
• spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home
• excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• crossbow (incl. large models operated by a number of people)
• netted apparatus atop a wall containing large stones, which were dropped onto attackers by cutting the net
• slingshot; catapult

noun:

• day off (between working days)
• 50th, 53rd, 55th or 59th day of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 八専
• non-fever day (when running an intermittent fever, e.g. malaria)

noun:

• zun (ancient Chinese wine vessel, usu. made of bronze)

prefix:

• honorific prefix referring to the listener - archaism - honorific language

suffix / counter:

• counter for buddhas

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

adverb:

• gradually; by degrees - obscure term ➜ 段々・漸次
• the sight of a tall soaring rock - obscure term
• crying; weeping - obscure term

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

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to drill; to bore; to pierce; to pass through

godan ~つ verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to hit the mark; to get to the heart of (the matter); to be true to (nature)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to put on; to wear - archaism

noun:

• thought

suffix noun:

• report on one's investigation into ...
• deceased father

noun:

• this world; this life
• the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.) - colloquialism
• this corrupt world; present world - Buddhism term