noun:

• Eviota shimadai (species of pygmy goby found in Japan, Palau and Indonesia)

noun:

• Trimma nomurai (species of goby found in Japan, Indonesia and New Caledonia)

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• Chimaera owstoni (species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark found in Japan)

noun:

• Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni, found in southern Australia and New Zealand)

noun:

• Cirrhoscyllium; genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae

noun:

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

noun:

• blacktip sawtail catshark (Galeus sauteri, found in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines)

noun:

• Hemitriakis complicofasciata (species of houndshark found in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan)

noun:

• Varanus; genus of carnivorous monitor lizards in the family Varanidae

noun:

• credit protection (by seizing assets in anticipation of a default); preventive attachment

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun:

• (ritsuryo system) teacher responsible for training in astronomy, astrology, calendar-making, etc. - archaism

noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

noun:

• roofed corridor connecting two buildings (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)

noun:

• toad venom (used as an analgesic and cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• tweezers (esp. in a medical or laboratory setting); forceps ➜ ピンセット

noun:

• coordinated group gymnastics (in which teams form pyramids or other shapes)

noun:

• bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere)

noun:

• muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking - slang

noun:

• attacking each other; capturing race (e.g. in go); mutual attack

noun:

• Tengin Bank robbery (1948), in which 12 people died of cyanide poisoning

expression / noun:

• misty mountain with blossoming buds and flowers as it appears in spring

noun:

• Oreochromis; genus of tilapiine cichlids in the fish family Cichlidae