noun:

• fundamental tone in the traditional Japanese 12-tone scale (approx. D) - Music term ➜ 黄鐘【こうしょう】・十二律

noun:

• chief kagura dancer (of kagura performed at the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• buttonwood tree (the American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis); buttonball tree ➜ アメリカ篠懸の木

noun:

• time of receipt (of a package, etc. by the post office)

noun:

• correct practices (esp. in Jodo, the path to rebirth in paradise) - Buddhism term ➜ 助業・浄土宗・正定業

expression:

• be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth - from Genesis 1:28 - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lead (a) life (usu. preceded by the type of life)

noun:

• Babylonian Captivity (of the Israelites, 586 BC - 539 BC)

noun:

• clandestine Christian (during the Tokugawa period); secret Christian

expression:

• women's liberation
• The Subjection of Women (book by JS Mill)

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era ➜ 大新聞
• minor journal; local newspaper

expression:

• views in and around the city of Kyoto (paintings and drawings) ➜ 図・洛中洛外

noun:

• saddleback butterflyfish (Chaetodon ephippium, species of the Indo-Pacific); saddled butterflyfish

noun:

• Salvelinus; genus of salmonid fish of the family Salmonidae

noun:

• Trimma yanoi (species of goby from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan)

noun:

• great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran, the largest species of hammerhead shark) ➜ グレートハンマーヘッド

expression:

• a fish out of water; a kappa up on the land [literal] ➜ 河童

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• drearily; with desolation; with loneliness (esp. the rain and wind)

noun:

• mountain covered in autumn colours at the end of autumn ➜ 紅葉

noun / ~する noun:

• winning one's first election; being elected for the first time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to advance to the next stage (e.g. in a tournament)

noun:

• seine fishing (usu. from the beach); dragnet fishing ➜ 地引網

noun:

• castle on a hill in the plains; flatland-mountain castle ➜ 平城【ひらじろ】・山城【やまじろ】

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

noun:

• tower crowned by a representation of the Chinese firebird; beautiful tower - obscure term ➜ 鳳凰