suffix:

• care of; at the household of (when addressing letter, etc.); c-o

noun:

• abomasum (fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant); maw; rennet-bag

noun:

• jatropha (member of a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family)

noun:

• unlicensed nursery; daycare services offered outside of the scope of traditional nurseries

noun / ~する noun:

• show one's real ability; illustration of the distinctive character of (something) - four character idiom

expression:

• better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond - four character idiom

noun:

• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) - archaism
• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) - archaism ➜ 律令制
• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) ➜ 五刑

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall (over, down); to collapse; to take a fall; to topple
• to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to cave in; to crumble; to give away
• to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to break down (e.g. from overwork)
• to die; to be killed
• to go bankrupt (of a company, bank, etc.); to fail; to collapse; to go under
• to be defeated (in a game); to lose
• to fall (of a government, dictator, etc.); to be overthrown

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu"; "ga" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "zu"; "za" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "dzu"; "da" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu"; "na" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu"; "ba" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "pu"; "pa" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• spirit of someone on the first O-Bon after their death ➜ 御盆
• the recently departed (and buried or cremated, etc.)

noun:

• publicly predicting the future developments of a creative work (making it difficult for the creator to use those ideas) - slang ➜ ねた

expression / adverb:

• as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Miyako toad (Bufo gargarizans miyakonis, a subspecies of the Asiatic toad endemic to the Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

noun:

• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)