noun:

• hemp yarn or linen thread woven into a coarse cloth used for mosquito nets, summer clothes, etc.

noun:

• thin cedar or cypress shingles (4.5-6 mm thick, used for shingling roofs of temples, shrines, etc.)

noun:

• roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; intestinal worm
• (metaphor for) location of one's feelings or sentiments ➜ 腹の虫が治まらない【はらのむしがおさまらない】
• (metaphor for) empty stomach; feeling of hunger ➜ 腹の虫が鳴る【はらのむしがなる】

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun / ~する noun:

• selecting from one's own works; one's own selection

noun:

• voting for oneself ［自選］

noun / ~する noun:

• using one's own judgement; making up one's own mind; judging for oneself

noun:

• being too clever (for one's own good); getting done in by one's own cleverness

noun:

• living only for one's work; a life with no other interest than one's work - four character idiom

expression:

• once a beggar, always a beggar; if one begs for three days, one cannot stop [literal] - proverb

noun:

• baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants

noun:

• man only used to receive meals from; man who always pays for food - slang ➜ ミツグ君

noun:

• useable footage ratio; proportion of footage that can be used for the final cut

adverbial noun:

• sometimes

expression:

• even Homer sometimes nods - proverb

noun:

• The Hundred Days (of Napoleon I); very short-lived regime - four character idiom

ichidan ~くれる verb (spec.) / transitive / auxiliary verb:

• to give; to let one have; to do for one; to be given - くれ is an irregular alternative imperative form

noun:

• private room; single (room); room for one; one's own room
• (toilet) stall

noun:

• used women's clothing store (catering to male clientele who purchase panties, high-school uniforms, etc. for sexual arousal) ➜ ブルセラ

noun:

• tea container (usually for thick tea used at the tea ceremony)

noun:

• going according to one's wishes ➜ 不如意【ふにょい】
• ceremonial sceptre used by monks when reciting sutras (scepter) - Buddhism term

noun:

• crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono); figured habutae

noun:

• ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)

noun:

• switch (long, tender shoot of a plant) - archaism
• switch (cane used for flogging) ➜ 笞【しもと】

noun:

• liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.)
• Wednesday and Friday ［すいきん］ ➜ 月水金【げっすいきん】
• bribe; sweetener; douceur

noun:

• soft vinyl; vinyl chloride monomer, used for moulded shapes such as toys ➜ ソフビ