noun:

• cheap lodging or flophouse, especially in a skid row area or slum

noun:

• a crowd or large number of one's retainers or subjects

noun:

• stew of cubed meat or fish (esp. pork belly or tuna) - Food term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to explain or describe a situation or matter in greatest details

noun:

• demonic or magic being; inhabitant of hell (or the spirit world) ➜ 神族・魔界

noun:

• nashiji (lacquering technique using gold or silver powder or flakes)

noun:

• white cloth or kimono with black or indigo splash patterns

noun:

• club (esp. for devotees or fanciers of some subject or activity)

noun:

• exchange or research student (as opposed to regular undergraduate or graduate) ➜ 正規生【せいきせい】

noun:

• hiring from another company; recruitment; scouting; headhunting
• quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume)
• drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)

noun:

• precious stone (esp. jade) - also formerly read as ごく
• egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping) - Food term
• stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold
• position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer) ➜ 建玉
• geisha
• time charge for a geisha - abbreviation ➜ 玉代
• king (of the junior player) - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 玉将

noun:

• debt; liabilities; obligation to a person or party (usu. legal or contractual) Antonym: 債権

noun:

• rapid-fire gun or cannon
• talking rapidly; barrage of words or questions - colloquialism

noun:

• panels, planks or plating on the hull of a ship or aircraft

noun:

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

conjunction:

• even if
• (it doesn't matter) whether (A or B or ...); whatever
• should - imperative form of である

noun / ~する noun:

• concurrently studying the teachings of two or more different schools or sects

noun:

• squatter; person who occupies a building or land without title or permission

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

noun:

• adopter; adopting parent or parents; adoptive parent or parents; foster parent or parents

noun:

• Metal Age (i.e. the Bronze Age and the Iron Age)

adverb:

• somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

~する noun / ~と adverb / adverb:

• bulge in a pocket or clothing - onomatopoeia
• "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets

noun:

• hall or room where a private Buddha statue or ancestor tablets are kept ➜ 仏間

noun:

• local warriors, or provincial or district officials, who developed paddy field lands