noun:

• yo-yo fishing [literal]; Japanese festival game of fishing balloons (with loops attached), floating in water, out with a hook

noun / ~する noun:

• striking (at something) and missing; swing and a miss; vain attempt

noun:

• hourglass figure; having a good-looking, full-bodied figure (of a woman); big breasts and buttocks, tight waist - slang

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

noun / ~する noun:

• landing; unloading (e.g. a ship) ➜ 陸揚げ

noun:

• catch (of fish); takings ➜ 漁獲量
• sales (of a shop) ➜ 売上高

noun / ~する noun:

• defloration (e.g. of a geisha)
• preservation (of cut flowers, in ikebana)

noun:

• smalleye hammerhead (Sphyrna tudes, species of hammerhead shark common in the western Atlantic)

noun:

• (fixing) boundaries for religious practices - Buddhism term
• prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice) - Buddhism term
• fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple - Buddhism term
• short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store - archaism ➜ 帳場格子
• barrier; dimensional barrier; containment zone; containment barrier; mystical barrier - esp. in games, manga, etc. - colloquialism

noun:

• Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber, species of Western Atlantic spadefish)

noun:

• auxiliary inflecting word; in Japanese, auxiliary verbs and adjectives - Linguistics term

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

adjective:

• able to take a lot of punishment (of a boxer, etc.); able to take a hit - Martial Arts term
• able to keep one's cool when the batter gets a hit (of a baseball pitcher)
• resilient; strong in the face of criticism or adversity

noun:

• var. of folksong; var. of koto or shamisen music; medley of (Japanese) songs

noun:

• mottled spinefoot (Siganus fuscescens, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); dusky rabbitfish; sandy spinefoot

noun:

• hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world - four character idiom

noun:

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

noun:

• scenic beauty of mountains and streams; fresh and clear beauty of nature's splendor - four character idiom

noun:

• talented man and a beautiful woman; well-matched pair; wit and beauty - four character idiom

noun:

• apartment with one bedroom and a combined dining room and kitchen ➜ ＤＫ【ディーケー】

noun:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

noun:

• Japanese residents in another country; Japanese expatriates

noun:

• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine

noun:

• Japanese language specialist; linguist specializing in Japanese

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)

noun:

• Semite (speaker of a semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds