noun:

• catalogue with the entire works of one artist (used to check authenticity); catalogue raisonne - From French

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle - idiom

noun:

• Shōkyō era (of the Northern Court) (1332.4.28-1333.5.?); Shōkei era

noun:

• in calligraphy, the four important tools of brush, ink stone, ink stick, and paper - four character idiom

noun:

• game of (blindfolded) tag similar to the children's swimming pool game "Marco Polo"

noun / adjectival noun:

• great inconvenience; great deal of trouble; big nuisance; royal pain in the behind

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sit on the edge of one's seat; to be in breathless suspense

noun:

• arm (esp. upper arm) - archaism

counter:

• counter used to measure the thickness of round objects

noun:

• Potsdam Conference (Jul.-Aug., 1945 conference regarding the postwar occupation of Germany)

noun:

• ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the Introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)

expression:

• with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; with the force of surging waves [literal]

noun:

• football fish (any fish of family Himantolophidae, esp. the Atlantic footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus)

noun:

• convict surgeonfish (Acanthurus triostegus, species of the Indo-Pacific); convict tang; manini ➜ コンヴィクトサージャンフィッシュ

noun:

• dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis, species of hound shark found in the Western Atlantic)

noun:

• hardnose shark (Carcharhinus macloti, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• graceful shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, species of requiem shark found in the tropical Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• spadenose shark (Scoliodon laticaudus, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• Delhi Dynasties; the Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, and Lodi dynasties of India ➜ デリースルタン朝

noun:

• one shoulder exposed (e.g. because one sleeve of the kimono is undone) - obscure term

noun:

• great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran, the largest species of hammerhead shark)

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zillii, fish of the family Cichlidae found in Africa and Eurasia)

noun:

• healing crisis; cleansing reaction; reaction during the elimination of toxins after antibiotic, etc. treatment

noun:

• Brahman; Brahma; ultimate reality of the universe (in Hinduism)
• Brahma; Hindu creator god
• Sanskrit - abbreviation ➜ 梵語

noun:

• dust, etc. that gathers in the bottoms of sleeves (esp. in Japanese traditional clothing)