noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• office (e.g. the Oval Office)

noun:

• Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• Former Watanabe Faction (of the LDP)

noun:

• Ixeris dentata (species of the daisy family)

noun:

• first train (of the day)

noun:

• supreme law (of the land)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is) ➜ 見当がつかない

noun:

• threadfin butterflyfish (Chaetodon auriga, species of the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Kouchikai (political faction of the LDP)

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

ichidan verb:

• to strip (the head of a screw, bolt, etc.); to wear out - obscure term

noun:

• (the artistic technique of) perspective

expression:

• good evening (greeting, e.g. in emails sent in the evening) - Tōhoku dialect

noun:

• ANZUS Treaty (Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

noun:

• tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon, sole species of the carpet shark genus Eucrossorhinus) ➜ タッセルドウォビゴン

noun:

• squarenose unicornfish (Naso mcdadei, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from East Africa to the Great Barrier Reef)

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.

noun:

• owning multiple animals (esp. pets of the same kind)

noun:

• Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era) ➜ 穴窯

noun:

• daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) (primarily used in context of the seven spring herbs) - obscure term ➜ 大根・春の七草

noun:

• reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler) - obscure term ➜ 葦切

noun:

• Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)

noun:

• sea pen (any coelenterate of the family Pennatulidae or related families); sea feather

noun:

• cleome (esp. the spider flower, Cleome hassleriana) - From Latin