noun:

• field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; vegetable plot; kitchen garden; plantation

noun / suffix:

• field (of specialization); sphere; area ［はたけ］ - ばたけ when suf
• womb; birth; birthplace ［はたけ］ - colloquialism

noun:

• adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman) ➜ 新成人

adjectival noun / noun:

• clever; intelligent; wise; bright; sharp; sensible; smart; shrewd
• well-behaved (of kids, animals, etc); obedient; good - usu. as お利口 ➜ お利口
• good (with words) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power; gathering strength

noun:

• swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin
• barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
• younger man involved with an older woman ➜ 若い燕

noun:

• grasping; gripping; grasp; grip; clutch
• handful; fistful
• handle; grip; knob
• rice ball - abbreviation ➜ 握り飯・お握り【おにぎり】
• nigirizushi; hand-formed sushi with a topping of seafood, etc. - abbreviation

noun:

• used women's clothing such as bloomers and high-school sailor-suit uniforms (esp. as a source of sexual arousal) - from ブルマー and セーラー服 - slang

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
• one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men

noun / ~する noun:

• judgement; judgment; discernment; discrimination; having an eye for
• appraisal (e.g. of an antique); evaluation; assessment

noun:

• forensics; (criminal) identification; crime lab

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

noun / ~する noun:

• buying up plots of land by force to resell at a large profit; land sharking
• raising the ground level (with fill)

noun:

• rakugan; dry confection of starch (e.g. rice, soy or barley flour) and sugar, mixed and pressed into a pattern - Food term
• geese alighting

noun:

• tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons; sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

noun:

• special seats and standing-only space in the galley for people who only intend to see one act of a kabuki play

noun:

• dish of fish (meat, etc.), tofu, vegetables boiled together and served with ponzu dipping sauce; pot used to cook such a dish

interjection:

• unh (sound of physical exertion); oof - archaism
• wow; whoa
• yes; yeah; uh-huh ➜ うん

auxiliary verb:

• probably - after a -nai stem
• will; intend to
• would like to have done (for me)

noun:

• tea ceremony stand with an enclosed shelf (invented by Takeno Jouou)
• small cupboard or closed shelf on the side of a tokonoma ➜ 袋戸棚

expression:

• actio libera in causa; manufacturing the conditions of one's own defence (e.g. getting drunk in order to commit a crime)

noun:

• goldlined spinefoot (Siganus guttatus, species of Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific rabbitfish); orange-spotted spinefoot

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun:

• broken windows theory; criminological theory stating that serious crime can be prevented by maintaining the good physical condition of an urban environment

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun:

• meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine ➜ 血合い

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)