noun:

• coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt

suffix:

• (something) shop - usu. 屋 ➜ パン屋
• somebody who sells (something) or works as (something) - usu. 屋, can be derog. ➜ 殺し屋
• somebody with a (certain) personality trait - usu. 屋 ➜ 照れ屋

noun:

• house - usu. 家
• roof

adjectival noun / noun:

• second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); the latter; defendant ➜ 甲【こう】
• stylish; chic; spicy; witty; tasty; romantic

adjectival noun:

• strange; quaint; queer

expression:

• thank you; good job; goodbye; goodnight - abbreviation - slang ➜ お疲れ様

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

noun:

• Shunkei lacquerware; lacquerware created using transparent lacquer on yellow- or red-stained wood, allowing the natural wood grain to be seen

noun:

• reason; principle; logic
• general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) - Buddhism term ➜ 事【じ】
• (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

noun / ~の noun:

• very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• Isogomphodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae with one extant species known as the daggernose shark)

noun:

• Hell Korea; Hell Joseon; satirical South Korean term criticizing the current socioeconomic state of the country

noun:

• window with a view of a Japanese mugwort thicket
• poor house; humble house; primitive house

auxiliary:

• if; in case; if it is the case that; if it is true that - hypothetical form of the copula だ, from なり and sometimes classed as a particle
• as for; on the topic of ［なら］

conjunction:

• if that's the case; if so; that being the case - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ それなら
• if possible; if circumstances allow ［ならば］

pre-noun adjectival:

• of the time; at the time ➜ 時【とき】

noun / ~の noun:

• illegal residence (in a country); illegal stay; illegal overstaying (of a visa)

noun:

• the sun, the moon and the stars; the heavenly bodies - four character idiom

expression / conjunction:

• in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of

noun:

• cercopithecoid (any Old World monkey of family Cercopithecidae, esp. the guenons of genus Cercopithecus)

noun:

• parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)

noun:

• Lord (title of respect for nobility, etc.) - archaism - honorific language
• Sukune (third highest of the eight hereditary titles) ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• Mitsukurina (genus of only living species of goblin shark in the family Mitsukurinidae)

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• Australian swellshark (Cephaloscyllium laticeps, species of catshark which inhabits the continental shelf of southern Australia)

noun:

• festival held on January 10 in honor of Ebisu, the god of fishing and commerce ➜ 恵比寿【えびす】

expression:

• (particularly) when ... (often in phrases like "the bus just has to be on-time when we are late"); (only) for ...; if we are restricting the discussion to...; in the particular case of

noun:

• my mixi; refers to the 'friend list' on mixi (or people on that list) - abbreviation ➜ マイミクシィ