adverb:

• between the waves; in the waves; on the waves; behind the waves; beneath the waves ➜ 波間【なみま】

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

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)

noun:

• one's original family name; maiden name ➜ 現姓【げんせい】

noun:

• five-family unit; five-man group; quintet

noun:

• official copy of part of family register

noun:

• family grave; ancestral grave; tomb - Shintō term ➜ 墓

noun:

• informal family crest; auxiliary crest - archaism

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

noun / ~する noun:

• family quarrel; internal squabble; internal trouble - four character idiom ➜ 内輪もめ

noun:

• a new house; a branch family

noun:

• palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)

noun:

• famous historic spot
• family name; professional name ➜ 名跡【みょうせき】

noun:

• ancestor who rejuvenated a dynasty or a family

noun:

• indoor bath; bath for family (not public) use

noun:

• true weevil (any weevil of family Curculionidae)

noun:

• Old World monkey (any monkey of family Cercopithecidae) - obscure term ➜ 尾長猿

noun / ~する noun:

• re-drawing up (of family register); re-establishment

noun:

• spider mite (any mite of family Tetranychidae)

noun:

• spider mite (any mite of family Tetranychidae) - colloquialism ➜ 葉壁蝨

noun:

• mold mite (any mite of family Acaridae)

noun:

• scoliid wasp (any wasp of family Scoliidae)

noun:

• flesh fly (any fly of family Sarcophagidae)

noun:

• wolf spider (any spider of family Lycosidae)