noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, and the rope is tightened until their ankles touch their neck)

noun:

• washing clothes at night (during the height of the summer)

noun:

• Gospel of Matthew (book of the Bible)

noun:

• any fish of family Merlucciidae (which includes the hakes) - From Spanish "merluza"

noun:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be performed (on the stage)
• to be in the limelight

noun:

• balloon shark (Cephaloscyllium sufflans, species of catshark from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• Neoglyphidodon (genus of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae)

noun:

• (the two sides) being evenly-matched in influence or power - four character idiom

noun:

• Ksitigarbha (jizo) who listens to people's complaints (statue at the Keihou Temple at Nagoya)

noun:

• green scat (green morph of the spotted scat, Scatophagus argus) ➜ 黒星饅頭鯛

noun:

• something created (e.g. by the gods); creature

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun:

• ushnisha (protrusion on the top of a buddha's head) - Buddhism term

noun:

• mochi added to rice gruel (15th of the first month) - obscure term

noun:

• double marriage (in the same family); intermarriage

noun / ~する noun:

• using every trick (in the book)

noun:

• tarsus (group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• gutter (on the eaves of a roof)

noun:

• Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)

noun:

• (the crime of) extortion

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

noun:

• Transportation Corps (Service branch of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) ➜ 輜重兵

noun:

• clownfish (Amphiprioninae spp., esp. the yellowtail clownfish, Amphiprion clarkii); anemone fish

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物