落

offensive joke

Intransitive verb

lack of registration (in the census register); being dropped from one's family registry

Rare term; Transitive verb

buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom

place where water falls

result (of an election); success or defeat (in an election)

winning or losing (a lottery, raffle, etc.)

ex-interest

historical graffiti; anonymous satirical graffiti

scrawl; scribble; graffiti

'taru' adjective

desolate; dreary; lonesome

Shogi

handicap

Food, cooking

left-over flesh on the spine of a fish (esp. tuna) or beef

discouragement; disappointment; loss of energy; fatigue

ruin; depravity; corruption

rise and fall; fluctuations; ups and downs

Sensitive

burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)

けいらく is used in legal contexts

acquisition at an auction

setting moon; moon setting in the West

snowslide; small avalanche

hamlet

Poetical term

bamboo fence (oft. a diagonally linked one)

Poetical term

undebranched bamboo used as a drying frame

unsuccessful candidate; defeated candidate; losing candidate

Formal or literary term; Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Transitive verb

receiving (e.g. a letter); coming to hand; acknowledging receipt

Shogi; Go (game)

bad move; missed move

cutting one's hair before entering a monastery; tonsure

Colloquial; Dialectal version of 落ちた

fell; dropped

Shogi

game of shogi in which the stronger player plays without the bishop

celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction