noun:

• first division of the night (approx. 7 pm to 9 pm) - archaism

noun:

• one field; a division; a branch (e.g. of study, etc.)

noun:

• fourth division of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am) - archaism

noun:

• fifth division of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 am) - archaism

noun:

• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

noun / ~の noun:

• division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category; department

noun:

• second division of the night (approx. 9 pm to 11 pm) - archaism

noun:

• washbasin; stoup or font for cleaning hands (esp. tea house, garden decoration, or for ablutions when visiting a shrine or temple) ➜ 手水舎

noun:

• dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水争い

noun:

• divide; parting; separating; distribution
• carrying two bundles tied together over one's shoulder
• hair parted in the middle - abbreviation ➜ 振り分け髪

noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun:

• law of equal division of rice fields (of ancient China)

noun:

• load balancing; load sharing; load distribution

noun:

• altering pronunciation or meaning; word with altered pronunciation or meaning
• turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 転句【てんく】

noun:

• emergency rice feeding; distribution of rice after an emergency

noun:

• electronic brakeforce distribution; electronic brakeforce limitation; EBD; EBFD; EBL

noun:

• tamponade; blockage or closure of a wound or body cavity by (or as if by) a tampon (esp. to stop bleeding) - Medicine term ➜ 心タンポナーデ【しんタンポナーデ】

adverb / expression:

• before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme

noun / suffix noun:

• broken piece

suffix noun:

• below (a certain level, point, quantity, etc.); dropping below

noun:

• illegal downloading and distribution of commercial software; warez - slang - IT term ➜ ワレズ

noun:

• large ginkgo tree
• ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division wrestlers - Sumo term

noun / suffix noun:

• gate
• branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master ［もん］
• division; phylum ［もん］ - Biology term

counter:

• counter for cannons ［もん］

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

noun:

• partition; division; boundary; compartment
• settlement of accounts
• preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark - Sumo term
• directing; controlling; managing; taking responsibility for

noun:

• internal disunity; internal division; internal rift