noun:

• two o'clock in the morning

noun:

• day of the ox (esp. in midsummer or midwinter) ➜ 土用の丑の日

noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death

noun:

• dental caries; tooth decay - Medicine term

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

noun:

• back part of a kimono

noun:

• Year of the Ox

noun:

• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

noun:

• 2:00 to 2:30 AM; 3:00 to 3:30 AM
• dead of night; middle of the night; midnight

noun:

• hind foot; hind-legs

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be talked about behind one's back

noun:

• fish, shellfish, etc. boiled in salted water

noun:

• cow shed; cattle barn

noun:

• form of a retreating person's body

noun:

• cow spot pattern (as on the hide of a cow); cow-skin pattern

noun:

• backward lean out - Sumo term

noun:

• ox warble fly (Hypoderma bovis)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to turn one's back (on the enemy)

noun:

• bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) ➜ 大目白鮫【おおめじろざめ】

noun:

• hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi" - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fall backward

noun:

• sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina)

noun:

• Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fall backward

noun:

• American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus)