noun:

• Scyliorhinus (genus containing 15 species of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae)

noun:

• small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula, species found in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

noun:

• Proscylliidae; family of finback catsharks containing seven species in four genera

noun:

• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• Rhizoprionodon (genus of sharpnose sharks in the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere) ➜ ボンネットヘッド・ボンネット撞木鮫【ボンネットしゅもくざめ】

noun:

• Prionurus (genus of surgeonfish and sawtail tangs in the family Acanthuridae)

noun:

• writings on many different topics ➜ 雑書
• book that cannot be classified in any category

noun:

• curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences (used by people of high rank) ➜ 寝殿造り・帳台

noun:

• government office in charge of court music (ritsuryo period) ➜ 雅楽・律令

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• parched flour, esp. barley (can be drunk in hot water with sugar) - Food term ➜ 麦こがし・香煎

noun:

• side dish served in order to encourage the consumption of alcohol (kaiseki cuisine) ➜ 懐石料理

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• snow remaining in the form of a mist after it has melted

noun:

• mechanism used to lift an actor onto the stage (in kabuki)

noun:

• inaw (ritual wood shaving stick used in Ainu prayers to the spiritual world.) - From Ainu

noun:

• adult striped mullet ➜ 鯔【ぼら】

adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done - abbreviation ➜ とどのつまり

expression / noun:

• page in the history books; historical (event); old news

noun:

• double corner approach (tactic in the game of go)

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• garment worn under the hanpi undergarment or hou robe in court ceremonial dress - archaism ➜ 半臂・袍