noun:

• navel; belly button
• protrusion or depression in the middle of an object ［へそ・ヘソ］
• center; centre; most important part; main point

noun:

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

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• self-styled humanitarian; chivalrous person; persons acting under the pretence of chivalry who formed gangs and engaged in gambling ➜ 渡世人・男伊達・町奴

noun / suffix noun:

• company; association; society - abbreviation ➜ 会社
• regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)

counter / suffix:

• counter for companies, shrines, etc.

noun:

• revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought) - four character idiom

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• Buddhist decoration engraved with various motifs, often made from gilt copper (e.g. for adorning the inner shrine of a temple) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• dozing off in the middle of doing something; becoming inactive online due to falling asleep (esp. during a multi-player game)

noun:

• world view; outlook on the world; Weltanschauung (philosophy)
• appearance of a world (e.g. in fiction)

noun:

• arm wrestling; Indian wrestling
• wrestling relying on brute strength (of the arms), rather than skill - Sumo term

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~と adverb:

• whistling sound; wheezing sound; sound of the wind; wuthering; howling; soughing; moaning - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to butter up; to try to get on the good side of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold back others from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage

noun:

• the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get (e.g. the gist of something); to understand
• to turn out as one thought ➜ 我が意を得たり

noun:

• heuriger; type of Austrian wine tavern where wine-growers serve the most recent year's wine

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun:

• shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck - four character idiom

noun:

• perestroika; reform movement within the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s - From Russian "perestroyka"

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - four character idiom

noun:

• four posts that used to support the roof over the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• cargo ships that sailed the Japan Sea during the Edo period - archaism

godan ~る verb:

• to set beyond the Western horizon (i.e. the sun) - poetical term ➜ 入る【いる】

noun:

• secret or hidden place
• female genitalia - euph.
• the underworld; the other world