noun:

• Sphyrnidae; family containing the nine known species of hammerhead sharks

noun:

• letters-to-the-editor column; readers' section
• space for correspondence, messages, etc.

noun:

• proximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the speaker, i. e., kore, koko, kochira) - Linguistics term

noun:

• female weaver
• Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae ［しょくじょ］ - Astronomy term ➜ 織女星【しょくじょせい】

noun:

• dancing girl (end of the Heian period) - archaism
• prostitute
• tempo in gagaku ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun / ~の noun:

• right in the center (centre) - colloquialism

noun:

• strict observance of the Buddhist commandment that all priests should be celibate

noun:

• Panamax (maximum size of ship that can pass through the Panama Canal)

noun:

• game or series of games between the first and second place teams - Sports term

noun:

• making replacements for defensive purposes in the late inning of a game - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense - usu. used adjectivally as 浮世離れした

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the first round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the second round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the third round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• era during the 1950s dominated by grand champions Tochinishiki and Wakanohana I - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop the opponent by pressing one's head into his chest - Sumo term

noun:

• mythical ball inside the anus that is sought after by kappa

noun:

• formal meeting (committee, etc.); session
• this (the aforementioned, our) association (society, organisation)

noun:

• taste for the exotic; infatuation with a foreign way of life; exoticism - four character idiom

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) - four character idiom ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• couple who only go through the motions of being husband and wife

noun:

• the selling of waste land (worthless property) by unscrupulous real-estate developers - four character idiom

expression:

• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom