noun:

• low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
• Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds) ➜ 山の手

noun / ~する noun:

• catch; catching; obtaining (e.g. information); receiving (e.g. radio transmission or phone call)
• catch - Baseball term

noun:

• shop tout; puller-in

noun / ~する noun:

• catching (in swimming and boating); catching the water

noun:

• catcher - Baseball term ➜ キャッチャー
• call waiting - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ キャッチホン

godan ~る verb:

• to pledge; to vow; to promise; to swear
• to have sexual intercourse (esp. between husband and wife); to share a bed

noun:

• sky
• heaven ［てん］
• svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth) ［てん］ - Buddhism term
• deva (divine being of Buddhism) ［てん］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• center; centre; middle; heart
• Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures) - abbreviation ➜ 中部地方

noun / ~する noun:

• report; notification; tip; bulletin
• message (in information and communication theory) - Mathematics, IT term

noun / ~の noun:

• south; southern; southward

noun:

• countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)

noun / ~する noun:

• washing; cleansing; cleaning; laundering
• cleansing (one's mind and body) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• worship (esp. Christian); adoration; divine service ［れいはい］

noun / ~する noun:

• worship (esp. Buddhist and Shinto) ［らいはい］

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• halving; dividing (into two parts); bisection
• the two equinoxes (vernal and autumnal)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
• to become intimate (of a man and woman); to get close; to get married - colloquialism

noun:

• Japanese language
• native Japanese words (esp. not Chinese and other foreign loanwords)

noun:

• breath
• sign (of something new and fresh); breath (of spring, fresh air, etc.); vitality

noun:

• teleprompter; autocue
• prompter (theater and opera)

noun / ~する noun:

• coordinate; co-ordinate; coordination
• matching (e.g. clothes, accessories, furniture, colours)

noun:

• coordinated outfit (clothes and accessories); ensemble
• coordinates (items of clothing, furniture, etc. designed to be used together)

noun:

• chestnut - From French "marron"
• marron (Cherax tenuimanus and Cherax cainii species of freshwater crayfish)

noun:

• cafe; coffeehouse - From French
• hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)

noun:

• bibliography (i.e. the study of books)
• bibliology (i.e. the study of books, booklore and bibliography)

noun:

• worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh
• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term

noun:

• policeman; official in charge of imprisoning offenders - archaism
• art of defeating (and capturing) an opponent with one's bare hands - Martial Arts term

noun:

• historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) ［えぞ］ ➜ 蝦夷地

noun:

• holiday ➜ 紋日
• day on which prostitutes had to receive clients (or pay their own fee to avoid doing so) - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put away one's bedding
• to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• splashing (water) - onomatopoeia
• chubby (and cute); plump ［ぽちゃぽちゃ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• walleye pollack (Theragra chalcogramma); Alaska pollack - From Korean "myeongtae" ➜ 介党鱈
• walleye pollack roe (generally served salted and spiced with red pepper) - abbreviation ➜ 明太子