綱

Biology

infraclass

rope-making; rope manufacture

fundamental principles; main lines

outline; summary; general features

tow rope; dog lead; bell rope; lanyard; sash cord

(one's) handling of the reins; how well one controls things

to loosen the reins; to let up on (someone)

least weasel (Mustela nivalis)

well rope

halyard

stern line; mooring line

political principle, policy or platform

three bonds (in Confucianism: master and servant, father and son, husband and wife)

the thread of life

mooring line; mooring rope; painter

izuna; pipe fox; fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses

Abbreviation

keeper of an izuna

party platform

Sumo

facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill; match in which a yokozuna overpowers his opponent

one's last hope; one's only hope; the last hope

hemp rope

garland; festoon (of flowers)

Sumo

wrestler newly promoted to grand champion

clothesline

Sumo

Yokozuna Deliberation Committee; body that recommends promotion of wrestlers to grand champions

じょうこう only; Noun, used as a suffix; Biology

superclass

Archaic; Buddhism

top-ranking priest in the Office of Monastic Affairs