noun:

• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) ➜ 精霊飛蝗

noun:

• school bag (usu. handheld or hung from the shoulder); schoolbag

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

• Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢節 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢節 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen ➜ うた沢

noun:

• giant petrel (esp. the southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus)

noun:

• fur coat (to protect against the cold)
• clothes made with the down of birds

noun:

• waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

noun:

• closed-mouthed form (statue with closed mouth, symbolizing the "um" half of "aum")

noun:

• deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed - four character idiom

noun:

• split election (where two or more candidates from the same party stand)

noun:

• ceremony for appointing officials other than ministers (from the Heian period)

noun:

• Hangul language (improper neologism for the Korean language) ➜ 韓国語

noun:

• six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu) ➜ 三途の川

noun / ~の noun:

• (for the) first time in one's life

noun / ~する noun:

• (the privilege to have) an audience (with one's lord, a dignitary, etc.); interview (with one's superior)
• one's debut (first) appearance; debut (of a new product, work of art, actor, etc.)
• trial service (of a servant)

noun:

• divine hearing (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• dental calculus (calcified deposits that accumulate on the teeth); tartar (of the teeth)

noun:

• Chinese-style vegetarian cuisine (popular in the Edo period)

noun:

• Zanclus (sole genus of the family Zanclidae containing the moorish idol as its sole extant species)

noun:

• membranous labyrinth (of the inner ear); membraneous labyrinth

noun:

• oil palm (esp. the African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis)

noun:

• liatris (esp. the dense blazing star, Liatris spicata); blazing star - From Latin

noun:

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

suffix / counter:

• counter for fish, shrimp, etc.