noun:

• Korean person living in Japan

noun:

• part of the fabric that is wrapped farthest from the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 下前
• percentage; commission ➜ 上米【うわまい】

noun:

• loan shark who specializes in refinancing debts

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle

noun / ~する noun:

• rebirth in paradise; peaceful death - four character idiom

noun:

• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

expression:

• honey in one's mouth but a razor in one's belt - idiom

noun:

• cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering

expression / noun:

• party in full swing; party at its peak

noun / ~する noun:

• undergoing a complete change in appearance; changing something out of all recognition; a rise in one's reputation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being immersed in water; being drowned
• being infatuated; being dazed; being blinded by

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set about in earnest; to put one's back into something - sensitive

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out - four character idiom

noun:

• the cabinet minister in charge

noun:

• sweet of egg yolks drawn into strands and boiled in sugar syrup (orig. from Portugal); angel hair; fios de ovos ➜ 南蛮菓子【なんばんがし】

noun:

• rice field in the charge of a nominal holder (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 名主【みょうしゅ】

noun:

• sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru - Linguistics term ➜ ギャル

noun:

• instruction in martial arts - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave a house in bad shape

expression:

• in an easy-to-understand manner; in a very kind and detailed way

noun:

• child in elementary or middle school
• go-between; intermediary; middleman; mediator; intercessor ➜ 仲人【ちゅうにん】
• person of middling talent, strength, etc. ［ちゅうじん］ - archaism
• middle-class person; bourgeois person ［ちゅうじん］ - archaism

adverbial noun:

• in the future; from now on; henceforth; hereafter - archaism

noun:

• cloth dyed in a dappled pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子絞り
• pattern of white spots; dapples - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子斑
• mochi containing red bean paste - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子餅
• fawn - original meaning - archaism ➜ 鹿【か】

noun:

• (openable) panel in a door

noun:

• palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
• kitchen (in a noble's manor)