noun:

• extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge) ➜ 枢【くるる】

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet in a friendly manner; to treat someone as if they were a guest in one's own home

noun:

• head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady; master (of a servant) - abbreviation
• entertaining someone as one's guest - also written as 饗 - archaism ➜ 饗設け

adjectival noun:

• concerning the result (as opposed to the means used to achieve this result or the original goal)

noun:

• one's own country
• home country (as opposed to a colony)
• country of one's ancestors

adverb / ~する noun:

• roughly; approximately; loosely - onomatopoeia
• cutting or breaking apart with vigour - onomatopoeia
• deeply (cut or split) - onomatopoeia
• rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita) - onomatopoeia
• sound of treading on pebbles - onomatopoeia

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) ➜ 唐行き【からゆき】

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

noun:

• green tea; green leaf tea; non-powdered tea (as opposed to matcha) ➜ 抹茶
• medium-grade green tea ➜ 玉露・番茶

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to say as a tradition; to customarily say
• to have a habit of saying

~する noun:

• to become a mistress; to serve as a concubine ➜ 妾奉公
• to serve one's master ➜ 主人に仕える

noun / ~する noun:

• hit; base hit; safe hit; single - Baseball term
• hit; success
• hit (e.g. boxing, hockey); blow - Sports term
• hit (i.e. as a search result) - IT term

expression / adjective:

• taking no notice (of); thinking nothing of; disregarding; not aware of; completely ignoring; being out of consideration; effectively not existing as an option

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

noun:

• Maria Kannon; statue of the Virgin Mary disguised as a Buddhist Kannon statue, used by hidden Christians during the Edo period ➜ マリア・観音

yodan ~す verb (archaic):

• to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect; to abandon - archaism

temporal noun:

• that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that; that is all (when finished speaking)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to have an audience; to meet; to see - humble language
• to face (an enemy); to confront
• to serve (esp. as one's wife)

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a well-defined character (of video game, anime, etc. character); to stand out as a character

godan ~く verb:

• to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect - colloquialism ➜ 放っておく

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become a geisha; to work as a geisha - archaism

noun:

• cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; treating as sword fodder
• omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation ➜ 切り上げ