noun:

• holding (i.e. holding something)
• holding-pattern (e.g. aircraft)

noun:

• barehanded; having no wealth or position to rely on (aside from one's own resourcefulness) (when embarking on something) - four character idiom

noun:

• light spot (e.g. blip on radar); always-on pixel (as a defect in LCD screens, etc.); calescence point

noun:

• form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap

noun:

• babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day
• normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months)

noun / ~する noun:

• living on the street; life on the streets; homelessness - four character idiom

noun:

• on-the-spot inspection; on-site inspection

noun:

• flying overnight; spending a night on on a plane

noun:

• lowering; sinking; bringing down; letting down Antonym: 上げ
• depreciation; price fall
• punch line (of a rakugo story) ➜ 落語
• sword strap - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 下げ緒

noun:

• literary and military arts; the pen and the sword

noun:

• hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handgrip

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go on tour; to be on the road (e.g. theatre troupe) (theater)

noun:

• rope weapon with a sickle on one end and a ring on the other

noun / ~の noun:

• bottom-up approach to management; on-the-spot decision-making; hands-on approach (policy, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• payment on delivery; cash on delivery; COD

noun:

• depending on the answer; hinging on the reply - four character idiom

noun:

• on the attack; on the offensive

noun:

• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner

noun:

• a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• long sword cloth bag; bag for long swords ➜ 太刀

noun:

• carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; taking responsibility for
• bucket carried on either end of a pole - abbreviation ➜ 担い桶

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with six verses in a 5-7-7-5-7-7 moraic pattern

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• sputtering; smoldering - onomatopoeia
• repeated thrusting into something (sword, needle, etc.); pricking repeatedly - onomatopoeia
• mutterings of discontent; faint sounds of complaint ［ブスブス・ぶすぶす］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• things on hand; things in stock
• money on hand; money in one's wallet

~の noun:

• on hand; in stock

noun:

• ko-on; ancient reading; reading of a kanji based on Zhou, Han and Wei dynasty Chinese