noun:

• Poaceae; Gramineae; family comprising the true grasses

noun:

• words read by the priest in a Shinto purification rite

noun:

• torture in which the victim is whipped with arrow shafts

noun:

• Bloody Sunday (esp. the Jan. 22, 1905 Saint Petersburg incident)

noun:

• alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)

noun:

• journeying to Song China during the Heian and Kamakura periods - archaism

noun:

• latticed butterflyfish (Chaetodon rafflesii, species found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Tetraodon (largest genus in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae)

noun:

• greybearded pygmy goby (Trimma annosum, from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• candycane pygmy goby (Trimma cana, species from the Western Pacific)

expression:

• opportunity only knocks once; strike while the iron is hot - proverb

noun:

• slender bambooshark (Chiloscyllium indicum, found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• brownbanded bambooshark (Chiloscyllium punctatum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• grey bambooshark (Chiloscyllium griseum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus, found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• chain catshark (Scyliorhinus retifer, species found in the Western Atlantic)

noun:

• deep-water catshark (Apristurus profundorum, species found in the Atlantic)

noun:

• whitenose shark (Nasolamia velox, species found in the eastern Pacific)

noun:

• Paragaleus (genus in the weasel shark family Hemigaleidae)

noun:

• position at the imperial court in ancient China; grand secretariat ➜ 大学士

noun:

• mole under the eye (supposedly due to having cried)

noun:

• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

noun:

• farmland - archaism ➜ 田地
• private farm estates from before the Taika reform - archaism

noun:

• five residences for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 後宮

noun:

• bringing out the pillows and futon (in Zen Buddhism); sleeping - Buddhism term