room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
shop; store; someone who sells (something) or works as (something); someone with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a building)
professional killer; hit man
bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building
tenement house; row house
small room; closet; cubicle; booth; stall
izakaya; tavern, bar, etc. that also serves various dishes and snacks
pharmacy; drugstore; chemist's (shop); pharmacist; druggist; chemist
smith; blacksmith; small crowbar for extracting nails; cat's paw
hidden room; secret chamber
haunted house; spook house; haunted house (attraction); haunted attraction
main building (of a manor); central room (of a house)
dressing room; green room; backstage; behind the scenes; the inside; inside affairs
teahouse; (Edo period) rest stop; (geisha) teahouse; establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha; tea house (that sells tea); tea dealer
wholesale store; wholesale dealer; wholesaler
barn (for storage); shed; outbuilding
butcher's shop; butcher; meat shop
loungewear; comfortable clothing worn at home
ramen restaurant; noodle restaurant
available room (hotel); vacancy; room to let
large room; green room; waiting room for performers when off stage; junior actor; actor of small parts; large hospital room (for several patients)
liquor store; wine shop; bottle shop; sake dealer; liquor-store owner; brewer
mountain hut (esp. one that offers lodging to climbers and hikers); mountain cottage; mountain shanty
secondhand bookshop; secondhand bookstore; secondhand bookseller
small-time candy store; penny candy store
real estate agent; realtor
arbor; arbour; bower; summer house; square gazebo
bar; saloon; pub; tavern; drinking establishment
second-hand shop; curio shop
greengrocer; fruit and vegetable shop; jack of all trades
very shy person; bashful person
mansion; palace; (arch.) nobleman; (arch.) noblewoman; (arch.) cabin (on a boat or carriage); (arch.) large roofed area on a boat (resembling a house)
sushi shop; sushi restaurant; sushi bar
person who gets lonely easily; person who does not like to be alone; person who craves company
fish market; fish dealer; fishmonger
courier; smuggler; carrier (e.g. of illegal drugs); trafficker
bungalow; one-story house
funeral parlor (parlour); funeral home; undertaker's; undertaker; mortician; funeral director
(in the) same house; (under the) same roof
handyman; utility man; odd-job man
barbershop; barber shop; barber
public bathhouse; bathhouse proprietor
restaurant that only serves set meals
public bathhouse; building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)
village headman (esp. in the Kansai region)
sharing a room; dormitory room; match between wrestlers from the same stable
cave; cavern; grotto; dwelling made in a cave; house carved into rock
eating house; restaurant that serves simple food
room allocation; assignment of rooms
double room; room shared by two people; shared room
souvenir store; gift shop
daimyo's residence on the outskirts of Edo; daimyo villa
Japanese-style confectionary store
shoe store; shoe shop; shoemaker
toy shop; toy store; toy dealer; toy seller
name of store; trade name (esp. of a sole proprietorship); stage name (e.g. of actor)
tofu shop; tofu seller; tofu maker
fruit store; fruit dealer; fruit seller; fruiterer; greengrocer
machiya; traditional wooden townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
ironist; sarcastic person; sharp tongue; satirist
encampment; official residence (of a magistrate or minor feudal lord); administrative headquarters (of a minor daimyo or shogunate deputy)
daimyo's main Edo mansion
temple elementary school (Edo period)
kimono fabrics shop; draper
corner room; corner apartment
(Western) clothing store; clothes shop; tailor; dressmaker; tailor's shop
cleaner; janitor; (arch.) night soil gatherer
forwarding agency; express company
hut; shanty; hovel; house built directly into the ground with no supporting stones
electric appliance store; electrician
confectionery shop; candy store; sweet shop
framework (of a building); foundation; mainstay; support; supporter
hat shop; hat store; hatter; hatmaker
(geisha) teahouse; establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha
pachinko parlor; pachinko hall
small attached annex; lean-to
walk-in closet; wardrobe room; dressing room; costume room
photo studio; photographer; camera shop; photography supplies shop; photo processing shop; photo finishing shop
small restaurant; eating house
storage room; store room; lumber room
estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage
show tent; circus tent; freak show
sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer; sedan chair business
tea-ceremony arbor; tea-ceremony arbour
laundry; laundromat; launderette
tobacco shop; tobacconist
old house; deserted house
stationery shop; a stationer
single-storied house; single-storied building
every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; (lit.) for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop
playhouse; theatre; theater
furniture store; furniture dealer
dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; (arch.) small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)
postman; mailman; mail carrier; letter carrier; postie
structure for housing heavy machinery
oden vendor; oden restaurant
sentry box; guardhouse; guard lodge; (Edo period) police box
hardware store; hardware dealer; ironmonger
haunted mansion; haunted house; enchanted house
pizzeria; pizza parlor (parlour); pizza place
an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance; (a young adult still) living at home; a dependent
newspaper stand; newspaper seller; paper carrier; newspaper reporter
pigsty; pigpen; small and dirty house
demolition contractor; wrecker; scrapyard; junkyard; auto wrecker
jeweler; (arch.) soap bubble vendor
one-hit wonder; flash in the pan; all-or-nothing gambler; one-shot speculator; slugger; home-run batter
politician (esp. one who works only for their own personal gain); politico
painter (of buildings, etc.)
repair workshop; garage; repairman
aviary; henhouse; chicken house
hatago (type of Edo-period inn for travellers)
bucket maker; well maker; cooper; hooper
land shark; land speculator
haberdashery; sundries store
temporary residence or shelter
houseboat; pleasure boat (large, roofed)
hard worker; person who perseveres; person who doesn't give up; eager beaver; bitter-ender
messy room; dirty room; unclean room
grocery store; dealer in dried goods
things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy; (lit.) the wholesaler won't sell it like that
debt collector; bill collector
ninja house; ninja residence
scrap dealer; junk shop; junkman; electronics dealer
Ise merchant; shop name of an Ise merchant; (arch.) miser; (arch.) stingy person; (arch.) skinflint
daimyo's spare residence or emergency refuge; residence of a daimyo's successor
bicycle shop; bicycle dealer
rabbit hutch; small Japanese houses; cramped Japanese housing
run-down house; dilapidated house; shabby old house; (arch.) rag and scrap merchant
purificatory font at shrines and temples; kitchen; cupboard; room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed; vendor of drinking water; building for taking refuge during a flood
small car dealership; auto repair shop selling cars; wheelwright; cartwright; rickshawman; rickshaw station
trader who provides cash to debtors by getting them to make expensive credit card purchases and then buying the purchases at a fraction of the price
general store; general dealer; jack-of-all-trades; jill-of-all-trades
(Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services)
empty residence; empty estate; empty lot
barber; barbershop; barber shop
robber fly (Promachus yesonicus)
rice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop)
extortionist that threatens to disrupt stock-holder meetings; sokaiya
tent; tabernacle; small curtain-enclosed area (off a stage); Makuya (Original Gospel Movement of Japan)
rooftop structure, e.g. tower, elevator machine room, etc.
bamboo dealer; person selling bamboo or articles made of bamboo; house made of bamboo
food delivered from a restaurant
paper store; paper merchant; paper seller; papermaking; papermaker
waiting room; duty room; standby room
dumpling store; dumpling seller
dome; vaulted roof; cupola
ragman; junkman; garbage man
Echigoya; Echigoya (nefarious businessman; stock character in period dramas)
geisha house; establishment with geisha on its books for whom it acts as an agency
eccentrically dressed band of advertisers
lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market); skilled batter; batter on a hot streak; accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
shop selling prepared food
room for female servants; room where there are women; jail for women
stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; huckster; faker; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise
wrestlers from the same stable
thatched cottage; hovel; my humble cottage; my humble abode
fixer; dispute resolution specialist
bedroom (esp. one used by a married couple); sleeping quarters; inner room; room at the back of the house
bookmaker; taker of bets; ringman; bookie
drinking establishment where one drinks while standing
residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period)
dressing room; green room; backstage; inside story; confidential talk; hidden circumstances
cake shop; pastry shop; confectionary
box maker; man who carries a geisha's shamisen
flour dealer; miller; mill
receiver's shop; pawnshop which knowingly buys stolen goods
sake brewer; sake brewery
to scatter a room (with things); to leave a room a mess; to leave things lying about
person who tends to find things bothersome; person who does not like to make an effort
general (civil engineering and construction) contractor
record shop; record store
bossy person; self-appointed manager; bossyboots
vacant house; unoccupied house
detached house; single house; single building; isolated house; house in isolated location
brushmaker (calligraphy); brush seller
tiled roof; tile-roofed house; tile maker; tile dealer; tile kiln
two-storey house; two-story house
precinct of a jail; vicinity of a prison
high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)
purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline; main building (of a manor); central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture)
simple and inexpensive restaurant; diner
indoor drying; hanging clothes to dry indoors
labor camp; labour camp; low-quality accommodation for laborers
argumentative person; captious person; controversialist; quibbler
different room; another room; separate rooms
liquor store; liquor retailer
obstinate person; blockhead
store that has been gone out of business; household that lives without carrying on a business
bashful person; very shy person
joiner; carpenter; cabinetmaker
tearoom attached to a theater (esp. in kabuki)
pitching a tent; putting up a shack or tent (e.g. a circus tent); (theater, circus, etc.) tent or shack
shingle roof; house with a shingle roof
tipster (in horse racing, etc.); dopester; tout
Kinokuniya; Kinokuniya (book store chain)
notary public; scribe; amanuensis
broker; employment agency
maritime merchant (Edo and Meiji periods); shipping agency
any event can bring about an effect in an unexpected way; (lit.) if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
wayside teahouse; tea house used as a resting place
camera shop; camera store
butcher specializing in beef; dealer in beef; beef-hotpot restaurant
jack-of-all-trades; jill-of-all-trades; all-rounder; general store
yashikigami; estate kami; small shrine with kami on or near residential land
row of houses; each house; every house; every door
conical roof; peaked roof; pointed roof; spire
woman employed in a restaurant or teahouse, often for entertainment or sexual services
black marketeer; black market trader
clothing shop; tailor; dressmaker
temporary theater; temporary theatre; lean-to
apothecary; druggist; chemist; pharmacy; drugstore
tempura shop; tempura restaurant
scroll mounter; picture framer
knife grinder (person); sword sharpener; polisher (of mirrors, swords, etc.); grindery
putting (a charge) on the room (at a hotel); charging to the room
brothel (masked as a seller of high-quality sake)
store selling boiled vegetables, fish, etc. (Edo period); boiled-food vendor (Edo period)
ezōshi shop; Edo-period shop selling picture books, wood prints, etc.
person who is hard to please; difficult person; grouch; sourpuss
car rental agency; car rental shop
room in Edo castle where the shogun's council of elders attended to governmental affairs
sweet potato shop; sweet potato seller
Edo-period seller of foreign goods
loan shark who specializes in refinancing debts
fastidious person; fussy person; faultfinder; nitpicker; stickler
young adult still living at home; dependent; female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period); freeloader living in a samurai's house; young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)
pickle store; pickle shop; pickle dealer
person who bought and resold surplus gifts given to daimyo or samurai (Edo period)
Nagoyan; person from Nagoya
terraced or partitioned housing structure
sukiya style of building; style of a tea-ceremony arbor (arbour)
thrifty person; stingy person; tight-fisted person
fabric store; draper; dry-goods store
bookmaker; bookie; trader performing (stock market) bucketing; bucket shop
brothel; bordello; whorehouse; cathouse
shiruko shop; sweet red-bean soup shop
liquor consumed in a teahouse
mausoleum; (temporary) resting place of a corpse
Otowaya (stage name of a kabuki family)
corner house (Edo period)
building with a gabled, hipped roof
cowshed; cow farmer; restaurant specializing in beef dishes; store (butcher, etc.) that sells beef
fly-by-night arranger; person who helps others flee creditors
house building; building a house; style of a house; appearance of a house
cheap drinking spot (pub, tavern, etc.)
expulsion room; banishment room; boredom room; rooms where employees who cannot be fired are sent to encourage resignation
dumpling shop; gyoza restaurant
shed; shelter; terminal (e.g. cargo, airport, etc.); temporary covering of a building being built
having one's own premises; Edo-period prostitute successful enough to have her own room in a brothel
Chinese room (artificial intelligence thought experiment)
shoptalk; matters incomprehensible to outsiders; inside joke; private joke
concession hunter; profiteer
forest or grove of trees surrounding a residence
superstitious person; practical joker; peddler; itinerant salesman
arrogant person; overbearing person; self-important person; braggart; boaster
small roof (e.g. over the first storey of a building, a window, an attached shed or veranda, etc.); overhang
vegetable shop; greengrocery; seller of vegetables
prolific scorer; goal-getter
Yakushima cedar (esp. one over 1000 years old)
person who lives an extravagant lifestyle
freeloader; scrounger; sponger; mooch
the shoemaker's children go barefoot; specialists often fail to apply their skills to themselves; (lit.) the dyer's white hakama
mature-aged man still living with his parents
scoop-getting freelance journalist
Matsuya; Matsuya (department store)
kimono shop; kimono store
destroyer; wrecker; ruiner
ticket reseller; shop where one can buy and sell gift certificates, coupons, travel and concert tickets, etc.
shop that handles Western goods (esp. Western-style apparel and accessories)
ragman; junkman; garbage man
mahjong parlour; mahjong parlor
beauty salon; hair dresser
person who is hard to please; grouch; complainer; whiner
broker; land agent; great liar; unreliable person
person who gathers night soil
rented house; house for rent
meal (esp. dinner) served in one's room (at a ryokan)
careless person; scatterbrain
float at a festival upon which one can dance
Matsuzakaya (major Japanese department store chain)
side house (to the east, west, or north of a main residence; home to women, children and servants)
shop; store; merchant; shopkeeper
moody person; temperamental person; fickle person
inside story; confidential talk
common variety of women's kimono sash
donburi restaurant; shop serving rice bowl dishes
snoop; meddler; nosey parker; buttinsky; kibbitzer
highest ranked wrestler in a stable
one skilled at obtaining publicity
someone who feels the cold; someone sensitive to cold
letterpress printer; letterpress printing shop
to have one's kindness taken advantage of; give him an inch and he'll take a mile; (lit.) to lend out the eaves but have one's whole house taken; to have a favor returned with spite
alley house; rear tenement; slum
moody person; temperamental person; fickle person
show-off; limelighter; attention seeker
servants' quarters; room for servants
Nagoya Railroad Co.; Meitetsu
brothel fronting as a tea house, inn, restaurant, etc.
outer roofed structure for protecting cultural assets and historic sites
adult toy shop (i.e. a sex shop)
people or companies that forcefully and illegally expel defaulting tenants from their lodgings
Nagoya Economics University
illegal bookie; unlicensed bookmaker
restaurant specializing in grilled offal
fashionable person; dandy; flashy dresser; fop
Nagoya Tournament (held in July)
long hitter (golf, baseball, etc.); fast driver
cabinet of curiosities; chamber of curiosities; Wunderkammer
salon providing ear-care and relaxation treatments
vendor at a sumo tournament
hachiya (variety of astringent Japanese persimmon)
brothel fronting as a tea house, inn, restaurant, etc.
intrusive person; being intrusive; (lit.) a tinker's shoulder pole
Takashimaya; Takashimaya (Japanese department store chain)
house built on stilts (e.g. the pang uk in Hong Kong)
to vomit; to throw up; to spew
IT worker; IT professional
scaredy-cat; easily startled person
professional relationship ender
tenement house with no windows
dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack
blown-off roof Yamato-e painting technique; depiction of a building without its roof to show the interior
gambrel roof; mansard roof
hanging roof over the ring
ragman; garbage man; garbage collector
perfectionist; enthusiast; zealot
tent-shaped mosquito net (often used to protect infants)
L-shaped house (with attached stable); pawnshop; stale bull; weak bull
living in rented quarters
hut where a fire was kept to keep deer, wild boars, etc. away from fields; hut where a mosquito-repelling fire was kept
Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster
home in which a woman stays during her period (or while giving birth); period; menstruation; menses
record shop; record store
maternity room; delivery room
building relocation (without disassembly); house relocation
confectionery shop; candy store; sweet shop
kanji "person" radical at top
Nagoya Women's University
room used by political officials (Edo period)
coach who owns his own stable
coach associated with another coach's stable
nosy person; insatiably curious person
mature-aged woman who has never given birth
Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences
rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same stable
kanji "enter" radical at top (radical 11)
Nagoya University of Arts
Nagoya Institute of Technology
looking for a room (to rent); apartment-hunting
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration
confidence man; con man; company (or person) carrying out credit fraud
store that sells remaindered book or magazines
karuta maker; maker of traditional Japanese cards
curry restaurant; curry house; curry shop
donut shop; doughnut shop
takoyaki shop; takoyaki stall
female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period)
Nagoya College of Art & Design
person who gathers night soil
one who loves novelty; one who goes after all the latest fads
ignoring or skipping over of Nagoya (by trains, music tours, events, etc.)
Shirokiya (department store)
store that has been gone out of business; household that lives without carrying on a business
within the premises (of a mansion or estate); on the grounds (of a residence)
white tabi made from silk, cotton, etc.
Nagoya driving; bad driving for which Nagoya residents are known
(clandestine) brothel (Edo period); whorehouse
person who convinces female celebrities to pose nude for photoshoots
scaffolding and temporary roof placed around a shrine, temple, etc. undergoing repair; protective scaffolding
weapon shop; weapon store
man in charge of delivering letters and packages during the Edo period
purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline
roof monitor; monitor roof; lantern (roof)
place to store a body in a coffin before burial (Okinawa)
National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya
Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
saw-tooth roof; sawtooth roof
divination (esp. one carried out with divination rods or sticks); diviner
shōya-ken; kitsune-ken; game similar to rock, paper, scissors, played with hand gestures representing a fox, hunter and village headman
high-quality glossy white habutai silk; raw silk twill fabric with fine diamond pattern
menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards
caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods
painted maple (Acer mono)
Yakushima sika (Cervus nippon yakushimae)
Japanese bay scallop (Pecten albicans)
Amami pine (Pinus amamiana); Yakushima white pine
bamboo orchid (Arundina graminifolia)
Yakushima macaque (Macaca fuscata yakui)
outside near the door to one's home
female servant hired at a lady-in-waiting's own expense
teahouse that introduces clients to prostitutes
nobleman; noblewoman; lord; master; dignitary
meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc.
(house with a) gabled roof
Edo-era meat vendor (esp. of large game, e.g. deer, boar); butcher
Edo-era meat vendor (esp. of large game, e.g. deer, boar); butcher
erotic tea house (employing prostitutes)
caterer in a red-light district
roadside tea house; beach-side cafe; simple, hut-like cafe
heavily made-up woman; (lit.) flour-shop burglar
Umeyashiki Station (Tokyo)