noun:

• ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】

noun:

• dripping liquid (soup, sauce, etc.) from the tips of one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma, species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark from the Western Pacific)

noun:

• round coin with a (square) hole in the center - colloquialism
• coin made of non-precious materials
• money

noun:

• coin (esp. an east Asian coin, many of which have a hole in the center)

noun:

• the ten directions (north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up & down)
• all directions; everywhere

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

• (in Japan) 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F) - archaism ➜ 十二律・夾鐘

noun / ~する noun:

• excellence (of scenery, etc.) - usu. しょうぜつ

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

noun:

• Mahito (highest of the eight hereditary titles) - archaism ➜ 八色の姓
• you (referring to someone of lower status) ［まうと・もうと］

noun:

• Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3rd, the supposed day of his death)

suffix / adjective:

• (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)

noun:

• turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix); touraco; loerie; lourie

noun:

• haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)

noun:

• type of marriage where the man merely visits his wife without living with her; duolocal marriage

noun:

• threeblotched rabbitfish (Siganus trispilos, species of rabbitfish from the eastern Indian Ocean)

noun:

• Stegostoma (genus of one species of Indo-Pacific carpet shark in the family Stegostomatidae)

noun:

• Hexanchus; genus of sixgill sharks in the family Hexanchidae comprised of 2 extant species

noun:

• Indian gold-ring bristle-tooth (Ctenochaetus truncatus, species of bristletooth tang native to the Indian Ocean)

noun:

• earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Han-dynasty China) - archaism

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the East; Tang-period Chinese office established in Pyongyang in 668 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the West; Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 640 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Izanami; female deity who gave birth to Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods ➜ 伊弉諾尊

noun:

• northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife) ➜ 対の屋