Kyūjitai form of 私鉄 (“private railway”)

The return of the prodigal son. Lit. The glory of returning to one's village wearing golden embroidery.

I don't speak Japanese

I'm a Muslim

I'm Jewish

prostitute

will you marry me

A stock phrase in Japanese pop culture supposedly used by the wife in a newly-wed couple to invite her new husband to bed.

Kyūjitai form of 私生児 (“illegitimate child”)

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next