腰

lower back

lower back pain

strenuous effort

legs and loins

weak attitude

manner

bent back

unarmed

to sit (down)

to set about in earnest

loins

half-sitting posture

bent back

chamber maid

waist

to bow slightly

to take a solid stance

seat

to get off one's backside

to get cold feet

measurement round the hips

to sit down

katana and wakizashi

tuck at the waist

to get up (from sitting)

stance adopted when prepared to catch an object

lumbar nerve

hip throw (judo, sumo)

posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo)

hips

attitude and demeanor

psoas major muscle

lunchbox hanging from one's waist

strong-backed

firm

firm or tough stance

firm

waist-high wainscoting

something worn on the hip (e.g. sword, pill box, money pouch)

sword worn on the hip

tall-paneled sliding door

slow to act

slow to act

unarmed

psoas minor muscle

shoji screen with a wooden panel in the bottom part

lower part of a shoji (paper sliding-door)

hip throwing techniques (judo)

humble

humble

short-sleeved kimono with a plain white backside

cushion worn round the waist for warmth

to settle down

weak foreign policy

slim waist

lunchbox hanging from one's waist

hanger-on

temporary employment

strength and elasticity of hair

wainscoting

to interfere

slender hips

narrow-waisted

two swords

hip measurement

bench (i.e. for bathroom)

waist band

gentle-mannered

to be unable to stand

coward

to dislocate one's back

to dislocate one's back

katana and wakizashi

loincloth

psoas

wooden paneling

wavering

to half-rise to one's feet

gambrel roof

cheerfully working

cheerfully working

lumbosacral

loincloth

to interrupt (a story, etc.)

bad poem

hipbone

lumbar vertebra

bad back

slim waist

buttocks

waist

shooting from the hip

to hurt one's lower back

strained back

gait

bustle

to bend forward

bent back

wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist)

waist-high partition wall

leash

to sit down

sitz bath

strong pelvis or hips

waist-high fence

waisted drum

to settle down (and deal with something)

cord tied around the waist of a kimono before an obi is tied

to collapse

collapsing in the middle of a bout

short guardless sword worn on the hip

white-rumped swift (Apus caffer)

red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa)

red-rumped swallow (Hirundo daurica)

polypore (bracket fungus, esp. of family Polyporaceae)

preparing to flee

straw skirt

overbearing

belligerent

height of the neck

wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist)

lumbar puncture

sturdy broad-bladed knife, used in woodcraft and hunting, with a rectangular blade

being bent (with age)