noun:

• diviner (esp. of the Yin and Yang system); sorcerer; exorcist; medium ➜ 陰陽道【おんみょうどう】

adjective:

• warm (esp. from the fever of a sick person); hot; stuffy

noun:

• correct practices (esp. in Jodo, the path to rebirth in paradise) - Buddhism term ➜ 助業・浄土宗・正定業

noun:

• Chalcolithic period (i.e. the Copper Period) - obscure term ➜ 金石併用時代

noun:

• oiled multi-layered paper sheet used to sit or sleep on (during the summer); oiled-paper cushion; wax-cloth

noun:

• without warning (the user) - IT term

noun:

• vesper bat (Vespertilionidae spp., esp. the Asian particolored bat, Vespertilio sinensis); evening bat; common bat

noun:

• Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - obscure term ➜ 斗宿

noun:

• University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation prior to 2005) - abbreviation ➜ 大学入学資格検定

noun:

• Panama spadefish (Parapsettus panamensis, species of Eastern Pacific spadefish found from the Gulf of California to Peru)

noun:

• favorable condition (for entering the priesthood) - Buddhism term
• dying in order (from oldest to youngest)

noun:

• (the two persons' sides) being evenly matched in ability - four character idiom

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th) ➜ 祇園祭

noun:

• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• in (the proper) order; in (the correct) sequence

noun:

• Northeast Passage (sea route along the north coast of Russia)

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• steered wheel (e.g. at the front of a car); steering wheel

noun:

• southwest Japan (southwest of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line) ➜ 東北日本

noun:

• diagonal move (in the game of go)

noun:

• vagabond butterflyfish (Chaetodon vagabundus, species of the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• brownbanded bambooshark (Chiloscyllium punctatum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• Phalaenopsis (the moth orchid genus) - From Latin ➜ 胡蝶蘭

noun:

• Mitsukurina (genus of only living species of goblin shark in the family Mitsukurinidae)

expression:

• this impure world (as opposed to the pure land) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土
• feces; faeces - archaism