noun:

• thus I hear (quote from the sutras); these ears have heard - four character idiom

noun:

• Tōhoku harvest divination event (14th night of the New Year) ➜ 年占

noun:

• man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)

noun:

• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子

noun:

• tao-tie (mythological Chinese creature engraved on bronzeware during the Shang & Zhou dynasties) - archaism
• brutal person - idiom
• coveting of wealth (property, etc.)

noun:

• silk cotton (esp. from the Indian silk cotton tree) - From Portuguese "panha"
• Indian silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba) ➜ パンヤの木

noun:

• opening ceremony (of the school term)

noun:

• Chinese "Bond" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・白虎【びゃっこ】

noun / ~の noun:

• acuminate (of the shape of a leaf tip)

noun:

• ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)

noun:

• kimono with completely attached sleeves (i.e. lacking an opening on the side under the armpit) ➜ 八つ口

noun:

• marlin (fish of the Istiophoridae family) ➜ 梶木【かじき】
• merlin (Falco columbarius); pigeon hawk ➜ 小長元坊【こちょうげんぼう】

prefix noun / noun:

• eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica) - often used in names of dishes containing eel - abbreviation ➜ 鰻【うなぎ】・鰻巻き【うまき】

noun:

• Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands) ➜ 南西諸島

noun:

• schrund (crevasse, esp. a bergschrund, a crevasse near the head of a glacier) - From German ➜ ベルクシュルント

noun:

• blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake

expression:

• fools rush in - abbreviation ➜ 盲蛇に怖じず

noun:

• orange-socket surgeonfish (Acanthurus auranticavus, species of the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• first appearance (of the season)

noun:

• Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror; one of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)

noun:

• (the likes of) a mere tradesman - four character idiom

noun:

• Cirsium dipsacolepis (perennial plant of the thistle family)

noun:

• Michinoshi (fifth highest of the eight hereditary titles) - archaism ➜ 八色の姓

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• rupakaya (the physical body, esp. of a buddha) - Buddhism term