noun:

• chamber maid; female servant
• area around the hips; waist area

noun:

• children's game in which the aim is to occupy the other's home base
• taking a place; securing a position

noun / ~する noun:

• invoking a deity during a festival held in that deity's honor
• medium's invocation of a deity to take possession of her (to receive his divine message or revelation) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• scientific name; technical name; binomial name; Latin name

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet

expression:

• where there's a will, there's a way - proverb

expression:

• where there's a will, there's a way - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to recover a cost; to recover an expense; to get a return on one's investment; to get one's money's worth

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

noun:

• stomach (esp. a pig's stomach or a cow's rumen); pork stomach - perhaps from the English word "gut" - Food term

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to find a food one likes by rummaging in one's dish, pot, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• technique of holding one's opponent's arm to prevent him from getting a hold on one's belt - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• covering one's head with a handkerchief, scarf, etc.; tying a cloth around one's head ➜ ほおかぶり

noun:

• forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism

noun:

• Saint Laurent (wine grape variety); Sankt Laurent; St. Laurent - From French ➜ サンクトラウレント

noun:

• Sankt Laurent (wine grape variety); Saint Laurent; St. Laurent - From German

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to sound out a person's feelings; to consult a person's pleasure [literal] ➜ 鼻息【はないき】

noun:

• using one's fingers as a comb; combing one's hand through one's hair

noun:

• calling another player's discarded tile to complete a meld (but not to complete one's hand) - Mahjong term
• declaring a kong or calling a discarded tile to complete a meld - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• a round; a turn; going around; making a round ➜ 一回り【ひとまわり】

noun:

• first anniversary of a person's death ➜ 一周忌【いっしゅうき】

noun:

• domestic help; domestic helper; domestic servant; maid

noun:

• person of lofty virtue; man of noble character; perfect person; saint - four character idiom

expression:

• expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat

noun:

• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term