noun:

• Ephippus (genus of 2 species of spadefish in the family Ephippidae)

noun:

• virgin birth (esp. the Virgin Birth of Jesus) ➜ 単為生殖

noun:

• Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens) ➜ 四神
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿

noun:

• last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) - Buddhism term ➜ 弔い上げ

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) - obscure term ➜ 宋学

noun:

• office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun:

• dharmata (dharma nature, the true nature of all manifest phenomena) - Buddhism term ➜ 法相【ほっそう】

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox) - obscure term ➜ 宇賀神

noun:

• hagfish (esp. the species Myxine garmani from Japan)

noun:

• saddleback butterflyfish (Chaetodon ephippium, species of the Indo-Pacific); saddled butterflyfish

noun:

• smooth-hound (Mustelus mustelus, houndshark found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• purple vestment (traditionally awarded by the imperial household); high-ranking priest's purple robe

noun:

• bee (any insect of the clade Anthophila)

noun:

• Tillandsia (genus of flowering plants in the Bromeliaceae family)

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

noun:

• feel (to the foot); feel (underfoot)

noun:

• Nihon-shoki (the oldest chronicles of Japan)

suffix / adjective:

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

noun:

• sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)

noun:

• 17C male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

noun:

• elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school

noun:

• sunbird (any bird in the family Nectariniidae)

noun:

• subgroup (of the periodic table)
• (taxonomical) subtribe