bamboo / the middle of a 3-tier ranking system

a wave

a surname

time / an event, case, occasion, moment; a specific period in time / a time of something / a season / a tense / (literary) the time during which a narrative takes place

(by extension, in general) music played upon one's appearance on stage

a skewer, spit / (Shinto) Short for 玉串 (tamagushi): a branch of a 榊 (sakaki) tree used as a Shinto offering / Short for 幕串 (makugushi): a post used to hang a curtain / a candle's wick

a surname

(slang, computing) a proxy server

skewer / shish kebab / suspension / hitch

criticize with pointed words / spike, thorn / stab, prick / name card