noun:

• Canthigaster inframacula (species of pufferfish found in the Eastern Central Pacific)

noun:

• Cetorhinus (sole genus of the only species of basking shark in the family Cetorhinidae)

noun / ~の noun:

• plantigrade (walking on the soles of the feet)

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings) - obscure term ➜ 上駒

noun:

• Ming & Xing-era Chinese music (as popularized in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese war) ➜ 清楽・明楽

noun:

• outer two ribs of a folding fan (i.e. the thick ribs, one at each end)
• outer frame of a lattice door

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ 妻黒

noun:

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

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• Delian League (the Athenian empire)

noun:

• Bancho Seisaku Kenkyujo (faction of the LDP)

noun:

• Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim ➜ 四国八十八箇所

noun:

• orangespine unicornfish (Naso lituratus, species of Pacific tang formerly confused with Naso elegans of the Indian Ocean)

noun:

• sturgeon (esp. the green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris)

noun / ~の noun:

• thermoregulation (of the body)

expression / noun:

• crowning glory (e.g. winning the last game of the season, creating a final spectacular art work)

noun / ~する noun:

• resultative (refers to a conjunction where what follows is a result of the preceding)

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun:

• household search (conducted by the police) - slang

noun:

• front facing display (e.g. books displayed on a shelf with the cover facing out); forward facing display ➜ 平積み【ひらづみ】・面出し【めんだし】

godan ~く verb:

• to make (the effort to make) oneself look cool - slang

noun:

• arrow wheel (decorative windmill on the pole on which carp streamers are raised) ➜ 鯉幟

noun:

• zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

noun:

• Bromeliaceae (the bromeliad family of plants)