noun:

• grand purification ceremony (so-called because it was overseen by the Nakatomi family) - archaism ➜ 大祓

noun / ~する noun:

• women picking up men (on the street) - from 逆+ナンパ - slang

noun:

• frog (esp. the wrinkled frog or Asian grass frog); toad (esp. the Japanese toad) - colloquialism

noun:

• Asomi (second highest of the eight hereditary titles) - archaism ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) (esp. one living in the mountains) ［山杜鵑］ ➜ 時鳥
• Tricyrtis macropoda (species of toad lily)

noun:

• Ministry of Civil Administration (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• Ashikaga shogunate (i.e. the Muromachi shogunate, 1336-1573 CE) ➜ 室町幕府

noun:

• curling inwards (esp. the tips of one's hair)

noun / ~する noun:

• attendance (of the Empress)

noun:

• coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus, found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• balanitis (inflammation of the glans penis) ➜ 亀頭

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings)

noun:

• ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus, species of monitor lizard found throughout the arid northern regions of Australia); spiny-tailed monitor

noun:

• Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century) ➜ 明【みん】

noun:

• Morse code (esp. the code) ➜ モールス信号

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November) - archaism ➜ 酉の市

noun:

• Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean, near the Mariana Islands)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a kettle on (the stove)

noun:

• contract (entered into on the basis of a promise or previous agreement); formal agreement; contract at hand

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - sometimes read たまをのぼし or たまほめぼし - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・魂讃め星・魂緒の星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

noun:

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

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東