underground world; underground society
financing company; credit firm
one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters)
peak period; pinnacle; prime; zenith; glory days
France; French (language)
role of a villain (film, drama, etc.); bad-guy role; social outcast role
rote memorization (memorisation); rote learning; indiscriminate memorizing (memorising)
to spoil; to ruin; to destroy; to make a mess of
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
heigh-ho; heave-ho; la-la
secret technique; secret art
to get drunk; to become tipsy
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
debt collection; debt collector
to delight; to give pleasure
boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque
placement; fixed position; mapping out; location
relief; embossed carving; bringing to the fore; throwing something into relief
fully fledged; full-fledged; proper; competent; qualified; full-grown
chance encounter (worth treasuring); a connection made with another person by chance
(raw) ore; unpolished gemstone
dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks
not bad; not half bad; pretty good
tolerance; broad-mindedness
bill (at a restaurant); check
serving concurrently as; holding the additional post of
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
oops; that's enough (when pouring up alcohol, etc.)
being reluctant to give out (pay, provide, etc.); giving out grudgingly
way of writing; manner of writing; penmanship (esp. used in old textbooks); calligraphy; format (e.g. of a report); stroke order of a character
proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
fallen scraps; scatterings; leftovers; remainder; student who cannot keep up in school; dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.)