noun:

• rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

noun:

• lacrimal bone (of the skull)

noun:

• filleting a fish (into three pieces)

prefix:

• hypo- -ous (indicating the lowest oxidation state); hypo- -ite

noun:

• auspicious day for any activity (according to the koyomi)

noun:

• constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions") - obscure term ➜ 星宿【せいしゅく】

noun:

• sensory area (of the cerebral cortex); sensorial area ➜ 運動野

noun:

• "winner" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the most) - slang ➜ 割り勘負け

noun:

• (at the) peak of mischievousness; little demon (of children)

noun:

• Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over - Buddhism term ➜ 八大地獄【はちだいじごく】

noun:

• fourth degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音

noun:

• territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)
• countryside - archaism

noun:

• bracken starch (starch produced from the rhizomes of bracken)

noun:

• twister (e.g. the game)

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• pent roof (below the true roof of a pagoda, etc.)

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo ➜ 菩薩

noun:

• tea gathering (for the tea ceremony)
• some matter concerning tea
• family tea gathering held in memory of deceased ancestors

noun:

• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ブラックバックバタフライフィッシュ

noun:

• Ogino theory (basis of the rhythm method)

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

noun:

• Prognathodes (genus of tropical fish in the family Chaetodontidae)

noun:

• Frankfurt School (school of philosophy in the 1920s)

noun:

• complete emptiness (i.e. as a denial of the inherent existence of all things); nirvana (where this emptiness is realized) - Buddhism term

adjectival noun / noun:

• quiet and lonely - archaism

noun:

• Chinese "Neck" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】