釜

teakettle caster; craftsman who makes tea ceremony pots

steam bath (often using brine)

broad-brimmed cooking pot for rice

jacketed kettle; double boiler

outer pot of a rice cooker

outdoor bathwater heater

Geology

kamaishilite

steaming kettle

Buddhism

the cauldron of Hell (in which sinners are boiled)

Idiomatic expression

to live together; to be close friends; to eat out of the same pot

Idiomatic expression

to succeed to someone's post; to take someone's place; to take over someone's position; to step into someone's shoes

to install (a person) in (someone's) place

creeping bugleweed (Ajuga decumbens)

Food, cooking

cooking a fish inside a salt crust

udon with raw egg, and shoyu, dashi, etc.

bunbuku chagama (a mythical raccoon dog transformed into a teapot)

Food, cooking

straight-from-the-pot udon; udon noodles pulled straight from the pot and served in the hot water used for boiling (traditionally without being soaked in cold water), eaten by dipping in sauce

Idiomatic expression

to make a blunder; to blunder; to have one's kettle stolen on a moonlit night

Vulgar expression or word

to perform anal sex (between men); to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise

Colloquial; Usu. in the passive

to crash a car into the back of another; to rear-end

Proverb

even the demons of hell rest during Obon and the New Year

Vulgar expression or word

to perform anal sex (between men); to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise

Colloquial

to crash a car into the back of another; to rear-end

green tea fired in hot pans after a short withering (common Chinese technique)

fish in a pot about to be boiled; person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger

brick-oven pizza; wood-fired pizza

Rare term

bowler hat; felt hat