noun:

• short article; short essay
• (one's own) article or essay - humble language

noun / ~する noun:

• going on one's own or one's own way

noun:

• one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters

noun:

• quality of a fabric or cloth; texture of a fabric

noun:

• dojo (hall used for martial arts training)
• manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 菩提道場

noun:

• performance; take; going before an audience or on-air
• game; season; crucial moment
• penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)

noun / ~する noun:

• shooting (a ball); shot (on basket, at goal, etc.) - Sports term

noun:

• shoot (of a tree or plant)
• chute
• shuuto; shootball; type of pitch commonly used in Japan - Baseball term

noun:

• small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
• tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

noun:

• straggling hair; hair too short to be tied or arranged with the rest of the hair (typically around the sideburns); lovelock ➜ 後れ毛

noun:

• something not seen or experienced - From French "jamais vu" ➜ デジャブ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hide; to conceal
• to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard
• to become quiet and inconspicuous

expression / adverb:

• before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
• of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them; among others

noun:

• tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable)
• forward puller (of a rickshaw)

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

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle; cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut ➜ 削ぐ

noun:

• soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

noun:

• going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth)
• narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)

adverb:

• purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); deliberately; intentionally
• not necessarily; not particularly; not especially - used with neg. verb
• definitely not - used with neg. verb - archaism

noun:

• kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play ➜ 本狂言・間狂言
• kabuki play; kabuki performance
• make-believe; ruse; trick

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:

• measure
• square (e.g. of graph paper or Japanese manuscript paper)
• box (e.g. on a form)

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun:

• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); woman who works in an adult entertainment business; demimondaine; prostitute ➜ 商売人

noun:

• Dragon's beard candy; Chinese cotton candy; Chinese pastry, similar to Turkish pishmaniye or Persian pashmak (thin pastry threads outside, filling inside) - Food term ➜ 竜の髭