noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• distilled alcohol (sometimes added in the production of sake)

noun:

• Matsuo Basho remembrance day (12th day of the 10th lunar month, associated with the change of the seasons)

noun:

• genealogy (the study)

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• Rigel (star in the constellation Orion); Beta Orionis - Astronomy term

noun:

• Koutai Shrine (the inner shrine of Ise Shrine) ➜ 内宮

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor) - abbreviation ➜ 紫微垣

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• sty (on the eyelid); hordeolum

noun:

• Alcyone (star in the constellation Taurus, brightest of the Pleiades); Eta Tauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• highest ranking prostitute in Yoshiwara (from the Houreki era onward) ➜ 宝暦【ほうれき】

noun:

• Koga Faction (of the LDP)

noun:

• diatessaron (the four Gospels woven into a single narrative) - obscure term

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 訓仮名【くんがな】・万葉仮名【まんようがな】

noun:

• fur seal (esp. the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus) - From Ainu

noun:

• marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

noun:

• wobbegong (eleven species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fall from heaven (the sky)

noun:

• Parascyllium (genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae)

noun:

• nuclear watchdog (i.e. the IAEA) ➜ 国際原子力機関

noun:

• Gollum (genus of one species, Gollum attenuatus, in the family Proscylliidae)

noun:

• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

expression:

• (in the work) cited; aforementioned work; op. cit. (opere citato, opus citatum)