expression / adjective:

• preventing one's opponent from getting an underarm grip - Sumo term
• having weak defenses

noun:

• leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group

noun:

• Japan's first coinage (dating to 683 CE, but perhaps never in circulation) ➜ 和同開珎

noun:

• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• U shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers; shears ➜ 和鋏【わばさみ】

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• pavilion housing the emperor's bathing quarters and dressing chamber (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

noun:

• Gartner's bacillus; form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans

noun:

• solipsism; philosophical idea that nothing outside of one's own mind really exists

noun:

• darling (only of a woman); dear; honey; my betrothed - archaism - familiar language
• one's sister - archaism
• friend - archaism - familiar language - female language

noun:

• National Military Establishment; forerunner to the U.S. Department of Defense (1947-1949)

noun / ~の noun:

• a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

noun:

• playing doctor; children examining each other's genitals (often as a role play)

noun / ~する noun:

• keeping an eye on people's belongings (so they don't get stolen)

noun:

• biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects

noun:

• post-retirement return to one's home town and carrying out agricultural pursuits

noun:

• one's second son ➜ 次男【じなん】
• man between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 少丁

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• agile (person's movements); nimble; adroit; lively; brisk; skillful - onomatopoeia

expression:

• following the desires of one's own heart without transgressing what is right - from the Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression:

• content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold - proverb ➜ 足るを知る

expression:

• there's but a fine line between genius and insanity - proverb

noun:

• pinfall; pinning an opponent's shoulders to the ground (e.g. in wrestling)

expression / noun:

• thanking another driver by flashing one's hazard lights - colloquialism - From English "thank you hazard"

noun / ~する noun:

• falling asleep (in one's clothes); lying down to nap; crashing out ➜ うたた寝【うたたね】

noun:

• foreign-body sensation (e.g.contact lens, something stuck in one's throat)