noun:

• air guitar (imaginary instrument used when pretending to play the guitar)

noun:

• ninjutsu (fighting art of the ninja); ninja skills in secrecy, stealth and combat techniques - Martial Arts term

noun:

• blind spot (on the retina) - obscure term ➜ 盲点

noun:

• bi (ancient Chinese artifact; flat jade or glass disc with a circular hole in the centre)

noun:

• modern koto (in contrast to the gagaku koto or gakuso); modern koto music ➜ 楽箏

noun:

• no wait state memory (memory the CPU can access without requiring wait states) - abbreviation - IT term
• instant (e.g. for display speed of text in computer games) - From English "no wait"

noun:

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

noun:

• creeper (plant that grows along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

noun:

• unimpeded bodily function (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• Myxine paucidens (species of hagfish from the Sagaminada Sea in Japan)

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記

noun:

• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period) ➜ 釜茹で【かまゆで】

noun:

• terracotta army (clay figurines found near the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor in China); terracotta warriors and horses ➜ 兵馬

noun:

• large river (esp. the Yangtze) - archaism
• Lake Biwa ➜ 琵琶湖

noun:

• Betelgeuse (star in the constellation Orion); Alpha Orionis; Alpha Ori; Heike star [literal] - Astronomy term ➜ ベテルギウス

expression / ichidan verb:

• to trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question - idiom

noun:

• Chinese "Neck" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ➜ 亢

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• Hayagriva (manifestation of Avalokitesvara with an ornament in the shape of a horse's head) - Buddhism term ➜ 観世音

noun:

• Malachi (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Shokuho period (i.e. the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1568-1600 CE) ➜ 安土桃山時代

noun:

• thrush (esp. the dusky thrush, Turdus naumanni)

noun:

• chain catshark (Scyliorhinus retifer, species found in the Western Atlantic)

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• Chrysiptera (genus of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae)