noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet in a friendly manner; to treat someone as if they were a guest in one's own home

expression:

• one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat [literal]

noun:

• blue line
• area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956) ➜ 青線地帯

noun:

• 51% attack (e.g. on a cryptocurrency); disruptive attack on a blockchain by majority holders of computing power

noun:

• mixed vegetable and seafood tempura ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・掻揚げ・掻揚］
• something pulled upwards
• small castle with a simple earthen-walled moat ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・搔き揚げ］ - abbreviation ➜ かき揚げ城【かきあげじろ】
• turning up a lamp wick

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; for dear life - four character idiom ➜ 一所懸命

noun / ~する noun:

• receiving; reception; getting; being given - humble language
• eating; drinking; having - humble language

expression:

• please; please do for me - also used after -te forms - familiar language - female language - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• pair of compasses; compass (for drawing circles, etc.) - From Dutch
• (mariner's) compass
• legs; step; gait

noun:

• PEN club; club for poets, play-wrights, essayists, editors, novelists

noun:

• hook (esp. for clothing); hook and eye
• snap fastener; press stud ➜ スナップ
• hock (white wine)

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• hoodlum; scoundrel; ruffian; tough; villain
• villainy
• without relying on others; without asking for help

noun:

• futon or cloth attached to the kotatsu's frame; cover for kotatsu

noun:

• campfire (usually large, and for gathering and singing, etc. around)

noun:

• coverall apron (esp. for cooking, cleaning, and household chores); cook's apron

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go downhill (e.g. for one's business); to be badly off (economically) ➜ 左前

noun:

• focus of one's attention; what one is looking for ➜ 目の付け所

expression:

• some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste - proverb

noun:

• cheap literature; writing for amusement
• light literature popular in the late Edo period

noun:

• the three entertainment district enterprises: eating houses, geisha houses, meeting places for assignations, etc.

noun:

• ornamental ball-shaped scent bag
• decorative paper ball (for festive occasions)

noun:

• buying for immediate requirements; buying just enough to fulfil one's needs; spot purchasing - Business term