deterioration

to deteriorate

Kyūjitai form of 実体 (“substance; entity”)

Kazusa Province, an old province of Japan

Rare form of ゼット (zetto, “zed”) (name of the letter Z, z)

handle

ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

(linguistics) diachronic

(linguistics) synchronic

eleven o'clock