御

ohajiki; traditional children's game similar to marbles, played with coin-shaped pieces of coloured glass or plastic

Colloquial

gun; pistol

emperor's meal

okara; soy pulp; tofu dregs; edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu

mother

Shinto

staff with plaited paper streamers

banknote; bill; note

Familiar term

boss; governor; headman

wife (esp. of a prominent, recently married man)

Polite

attending (upon); keeping another company; being a confidant; serving (a nobleman)

Abbreviation

fairy tale

Food, cooking

mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried

Polite

pot

(volcanic) crater

buttocks

Word usually written using kana alone; Sensitive; Colloquial; Usu. オカマ; oft. derog.

effeminate gay man; male transvestite; (preoperative) transgender woman; (gay) male prostitute

control panel; switchbox

imperial tomb

gentlemen

Honorific

buttocks; lower back; waist; hips

Female

kimono underskirt

Word usually written using kana alone; As おかげさまで

(someone's) assistance; help; aid; kindness; goodwill

grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); blessing

son

principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol

Jocular, humorous term

the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter

granite

imperial visit; imperial outing

hundred times worship (e.g. walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time)

fortune slip (usu. bought at a shrine)

pickled vegetables; pickles

Honorific

spirit of a deceased person

revengeful ghost

Abbreviation

ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead