俗

conversation on worldly affairs; chat about everyday life (business)

unworldly; supermundane; free from worldly cares (concerns)

(of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people

offense against public morals; morals offense; vice crime

sex establishment (as regulated by a specific Japanese law)

Law Regulating Adult Entertainment Businesses (1948 act, replaced in 1984); Entertainment and Amusement Trades Control Law

Colloquial; Slang

star of the demimonde

secular state; secular nation

folk etymology; popular (but unfounded) etymology

Organization name

Japan Folklore Economics Association

Obsolete term

ethnology; folkloristics

Rare term

colloquial language style; everyday language style

Rare term

foolish customs

barbaric custom; barbarian custom

vulgarization; refined thing becoming vulgar