noun:

• saw with a spine; tenon saw; back saw

noun / suffix noun:

• system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation; control; government; suppression; restraint; holding back; establishment

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• contrary; opposite; inverse; reverse; back-to-front - onomatopoeia

~する verb (spec.):

• to approve; to agree; to assent; to endorse; to support; to back
• to inscribe
• to praise; to laud

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard; to put back (a clock)

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

noun:

• Scan Talk (brand name for a barcode system for recording and playing back brief sequences of sound)

noun:

• gathering evidence (e.g. to back a news story); getting the facts; obtaining supporting evidence

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get on one's way (back home)

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to incur the wrath of god (e.g. by speaking ill of somebody behind their back); to get into trouble
• to warp one's mouth

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to bow (of one's back, e.g. due to age); to bend

noun:

• Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back) - archaism

expression:

• Come away home! (expression suggesting quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown) - archaism ➜ 帰去来

noun / ~する noun:

• being returned (sent back) to the drawing board - four character idiom

expression:

• already embarked (and hence cannot go back); already started

noun:

• large war sword (carried across the back); extra-long sword ➜ 野太刀【のだち】

noun:

• toe-in (alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back)

noun:

• large war sword (carried across the back)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)