noun:

• spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)

noun:

• (in Japan) 2nd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp) ➜ 十二律・大呂

noun:

• three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration)

noun:

• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - archaism ➜ 鯤

noun:

• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

interjection:

• exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen)

noun:

• scolding or threatening with a shout

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り

noun:

• Portuguese card game popular in Japan during the late 16th century ➜ ウンスンカルタ

noun:

• machine for making (white) lines (in sport fields, etc.) - From English "line car"

noun:

• choir singing from music - From English "choral reading"
• reading aloud in a group

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Akhal-Teke, a breed of horses originating in Turkmenistan

noun:

• full house (esp. in card games such as poker)

noun:

• square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

noun:

• Satsuma (ancient province located in present-day Kagoshima prefecture)
• sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) - abbreviation ➜ 薩摩芋【さつまいも】

expression / noun:

• seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season

noun:

• Deer-Antler-Cutting Ceremony (held in Nara between late October and early November)

godan ~る verb:

• to have your party wiped out (in the RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne) - slang

noun:

• ranking system based on dan and kyū (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.) ➜ 級・段

noun:

• ranking system based on dan and kyū (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.) ➜ 級・段

noun:

• Heterodontus (sole genus of living bullhead sharks in the family Heterodontidae)

noun:

• Parmaturus (genus containing 9 species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae)