noun:

• see-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys) ➜ 三猿

noun:

• Murakumo no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia) - obscure term ➜ 天叢雲剣

noun:

• rugged mountain (of the more rugged mountain of a pair of mountains) ➜ 女山

noun:

• Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史

noun:

• epiphora (excessive watering of the eye)

noun:

• battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year)

noun:

• Sakyamuni (sage of the Sakyas)

noun:

• Samuel I (book of the Bible)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to change (with the passage of time)
• to fade; to wane; to decline

noun:

• halibut (esp. the Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepis)

noun:

• occupation period (e.g. post-WWII period during which the Allies occupied Japan)

noun / ~の noun:

• ethmoid bone (of the skull)

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

noun:

• Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)

noun:

• deadline (esp. in the entertainment industry); fixed ending time - colloquialism

noun:

• sprinkling water (on the ground); sprinkled water

noun:

• Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• four handed performance (on the piano)

noun:

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

noun:

• mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus) - archaism ➜ 鯖

noun:

• person skilled (in the art of doing something)

noun:

• motor area (of the cerebral cortex) ➜ 感覚野

noun:

• uprising (during the Muromachi period) demanding debt cancellation orders - four character idiom

noun:

• question of possession (e.g. of the Kuril Islands)

noun:

• iron arrow-head (from the Yayoi and Kofun periods)