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

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• Old World flycatcher (any bird of family Muscicapinae, esp. the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae)

noun:

• Denebola (star in the constellation Leo); Beta Leonis - Astronomy term

noun:

• bellows (of the) imperial harbor; Shinto Buddhist doctrines - Buddhism term

noun:

• provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period)

noun:

• Kobo Daishi is always with me (written on the hats of Shikoku pilgrims) ➜ 四国遍路

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump (out of the way); to jump back; to jump aside

noun:

• (at the) time of application

noun:

• fur seal (esp. the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus); Alaskan fur seal - From Ainu ➜ オットセイ

noun:

• soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward) ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• recognition of an unborn child (for the purposes of claiming nationality)