noun:

• Epistle to Philemon (book of the Bible)

noun:

• nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have) ➜ 天狐

noun:

• Merostomata (group comprising the sea scorpions and the horseshoe crabs)

noun:

• redface dwarfgoby (Trimma benjamini, species found in the Western Pacific); ring-eye pygmy-goby

noun / ~の noun:

• near point (closest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye) ➜ 遠点【えんてん】
• periapsis - Astronomy term ➜ 遠点【えんてん】

noun:

• broadfin sawtail catshark (Galeus nipponensis, found in China, Japan, and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge)

noun:

• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be drenched (from the rain, etc.) - archaism

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)

noun:

• divination (based on the Book of Changes) ➜ 易経

noun:

• Nihon Montoku Tenno Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 文徳実録・六国史

noun:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

noun / ~する noun:

• brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)

noun:

• ctenophore (aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora) ➜ 櫛水母

noun:

• Kings II (book of the Bible)

noun:

• latticed butterflyfish (Chaetodon rafflesii, species found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century) - From Portuguese "padre"
• Christianity; Christian

expression:

• something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow) - obscure term

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

noun:

• Engen era (of the Southern Court) (1336.2.29-1340.4.28)

noun:

• online handle (esp. on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously); screen name; user name - colloquialism
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously) - colloquialism

suffix noun:

• (for the) whole month

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish