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:

• (short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house
• reputation (of a store); good name; credit
• goodwill - Business term

noun / ~する noun:

• going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building)
• receiving a flood of critical comments on an online article, blog post, etc.

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:

• pitch; tone; key
• time; tempo

noun / suffix:

• mood; tendency; style

noun:

• tax paid in kind (ritsuryo period); first a tax on rice fields and households, then on individuals - also 徴 - archaism

noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

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:

• program picture (i.e. film cheaply and quickly produced as a lesser attraction in a double bill); programme picture; B-movie

noun:

• Hemiscyllium (genus of longtail carpet sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with short snouts, nostrils at the tip, and elevated eyes and supraorbital ridges)

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

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)

suffix:

• separation from; loss of interest in; independence of; distancing (of oneself) from; disillusionment with; alienation from (something) ［ばなれ］

prefix:

• detached (dwelling, room) ［はなれ］ ➜ 離れ座敷

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to censure; to criticize; to criticise; to rebuke; to defy; to disobey - archaism
• to fashion after; to make in the form of; to imitate - archaism

noun:

• one's heart
• at one's discretion; in one's hands

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold or carry under or in the arms
• to have (esp. problems, debts, etc.)
• to employ; to engage; to hire

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be absorbed in; to devote oneself (to); to give oneself over (to)

expression / noun:

• the harmonizing, mentally and physically, of two parties engaged in an activity; singing from the same hymn-sheet; dancing to the same beat - idiom

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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to forcefully open up a hole (in a wall, etc.)
• to speak frankly, holding nothing back ➜ 打ち明ける【うちあける】
• to throw out (everything inside)

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:

• sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth) ➜ 炬燵

expression:

• being so content that one would not mind dying; one can now rest in peace; one ought to be contented with what has been accomplished - idiom