dirty joke;  blue joke;  indecent topic;  bawdy subject;  sex talk
 lower part;  foot;  lower direction;  left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV);  stage right (actor's POV)
 the lower classes;  the common people
 Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica);  meadowsweet;  Shimotsuke (former province located in present-day Tochigi Prefecture)
 lower reaches (of a river);  bottom;  lower part;  lower half (of the body, esp. the privates);  feces (faeces);  end
 villa;  daimyo's suburban residence
 Shimōsa (former province located in parts of present-day Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama and Tokyo prefectures)
 small attached annex;  lean-to
 care for patients with bedpans, urinary bottles, etc.
 lower seat;  seat at bottom of the table
 conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru"
 lower reaches (e.g. of a valley);  downstream sector
 round-faced;  bulging at the bottom;  swelling toward the bottom
 second half of the year;  second half of the fiscal year
 downhill;  decline;  waning
 last two figures of a number
 Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895)
 last part of a poem or Bible verse
 samurai costume;  old ceremonial costume;  top and bottom;  up and down;  high and low
 second half of the (fiscal) year
 lower classes;  common people
 conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)
 servant;  manservant;  menial
 conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru"
 servants' quarters;  room for servants
 conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru"
 (in Japan) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp)
 to talk about indecent things
 sitz bath;  sitting bath;  bath for the lower half of the body;  lower pool (e.g. in an onsen);  lower bath
 light blue samurai costume commonly worn when committing suicide
 right-hand opponent;  player to one's right
 room used by political officials (Edo period)
 last part of a poem or Bible verse
 variation of uta-garuta played in Hokkaido
 last quarter (of the year)
 meadowsweet (Filipendula multijuga)
 Spiraea salicifolia (species of spirea)
 downwards direction;  downstream
 Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica)
 Shimoyama Station (Kyoto)
 Shimohyōgo Station (Wakayama)