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• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• Akhal-Teke, a breed of horses originating in Turkmenistan

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• full house (esp. in card games such as poker)

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• square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

noun:

• Satsuma (ancient province located in present-day Kagoshima prefecture)
• sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) - abbreviation ➜ 薩摩芋【さつまいも】

noun:

• Deer-Antler-Cutting Ceremony (held in Nara between late October and early November)

noun:

• ranking system based on dan and kyū (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.) ➜ 級・段

noun:

• ranking system based on dan and kyū (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.) ➜ 級・段

noun:

• Proscylliidae; family of finback catsharks containing seven species in four genera

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• writings on many different topics ➜ 雑書
• book that cannot be classified in any category

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• leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group

noun:

• Japan's first coinage (dating to 683 CE, but perhaps never in circulation) ➜ 和同開珎

noun:

• curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences (used by people of high rank) ➜ 寝殿造り・帳台

noun:

• government office in charge of court music (ritsuryo period) ➜ 雅楽・律令

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• parched flour, esp. barley (can be drunk in hot water with sugar) - Food term ➜ 麦こがし・香煎

noun:

• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole - obsolete term

noun:

• Gartner's bacillus; form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans

noun:

• scraps of food, batter, etc. remaining in deep-frying oil ➜ 天かす

noun / ~する noun:

• depalatalization (e.g.. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation - e.g. conversion of きゃ to か - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ 拗音【ようおん】

noun:

• funhouse; fun house
• subculture magazine published in Japan between 1974 and 1985 ［ビックリハウス］

noun:

• love ban; talent agency rule forbidding clients from getting involved in romantic relationships

noun:

• vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste, esp. with lots of liquid - Kansai dialect - Food term ➜ どぶ漬け【どぶづけ】

noun:

• mixture of chocolate, cream and liquor, used in truffles, ganache, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 生チョコレート