noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism - four character idiom

noun:

• menu board (small blackboard on which the specials of the day, etc., are written)

noun:

• Geisteswissenschaften (i.e. the humanities, excluding the arts); mental science

noun:

• any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

noun:

• Golden Triangle (area near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos)

noun:

• anthropological argument (one of Descartes' ontological arguments for the existence of God)

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate

godan ~る verb:

• to search (using the Yahoo search engine) - slang ➜ ググる

noun:

• Indian swellshark (Cephaloscyllium silasi, species of catshark from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• dusky batfish (Platax pinnatus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)

noun:

• Semang people (Negrito ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula)

noun:

• amendment (of the ritsuryo) - archaism ➜ 律令

noun:

• silpasthanavidya (ancient Indian study of the arts, incl. mathematics and mechanics) ➜ 五明

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to bring a complaint to a person (who is responsible for the problem)

noun:

• turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix); touraco; loerie; lourie

noun:

• Transportation Corps (service branch of the Imperial Japanese Army) - obsolete term ➜ 輸送科

noun:

• shaku (flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb)

noun:

• cross-grips (situation in which each rikishi has an underarm grip on the other) - Sumo term
• kimono made for young children

noun:

• Mohe (one of the Tungusic-speaking tribes) - archaism ➜ 靺鞨

noun:

• Scoliodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the spadenose shark)

noun:

• inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦
• death pains; agony of death

noun:

• flathead (esp. the bartailed flathead, Platycephalus indicus) - 牛尾魚 is gikun

~と adverb:

• gently and clearly shining (like the sun in springtime) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 斗【と】

noun / ~する noun:

• first ride (in a new vehicle, in the new year, etc.)

noun:

• base-fare zone; starting fare; base fare