noun:

• candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender

noun:

• last quarter (of the year)

noun:

• Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• inaw (ritual wood shaving stick used in Ainu prayers to the spiritual world.) - From Ainu

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

noun:

• phoenix (esp. fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) ➜ 鳳凰

noun:

• gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)

noun:

• judge (of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office); judicial officer; minister of justice
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office - abbreviation ➜ 弾正台

noun:

• overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)

noun:

• lampshell (excluding the lingulate brachiopods); lamp shell - obscure term ➜ 三味線貝

noun:

• Ruth (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Eusteralis yatabeana (species of plant in the mint family)

noun:

• Hinayana (the Lesser Vehicle)

noun:

• pacifist constitution (often applied to the Japanese constitution); constitution which outlaws use of arms ➜ 日本国憲法

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• noisily (esp. the noise of heavy feet) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sphenoid bone (of the skull)

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

noun:

• Lamna (genus of mackerel sharks or white sharks with two living species in the family Lamnidae)

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

noun:

• corpus spongiosum (body of penile erecile tissue surrounding the urethra)

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• rusty monitor (Varanus semiremex, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the east coast of Queensland, Australia)

noun:

• Gelaohui (secret Chinese society of the late Xing dynasty) ➜ 会党

noun:

• Coleoptera (the order of insects containing beetles)

expression:

• Repeated reading (makes the meaning clear); Reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning) - four character idiom