noun:

• Kansai region (south-western half of Japan, including Osaka)

noun / ~する noun:

• making things out of straw (winter work for farmers)

noun:

• amount to be borne; one's share (of expenses) ➜ 負担額・分担金

noun:

• amount to be borne; one's share (of expenses) ➜ 負担金・分担金

noun:

• var. of senbei shaped like a Japanese plum

noun:

• title song (of a record) - From English "title tune"

noun:

• (in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song ➜ 序破急

noun:

• the three phases of matter: solid, liquid and gas

noun:

• drunken elephant piece, used in some variants of shogi

noun:

• Transportation Corps (service branch of the Imperial Japanese Army) - obsolete term ➜ 輸送科

noun:

• cat food - slang
• dish of leftovers on rice

noun:

• lower reaches (e.g. of a valley); downstream sector

noun:

• vagabond butterflyfish (Chaetodon vagabundus, species of the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Siganus woodlandi (species of rabbitfish found in New Caledonia)

noun:

• Thalassoma cupido (commercially cultured type of wrasse in Japan)

expression:

• thank you (dialect from the Izumo region of Shimane Prefecture)

noun:

• Centrophoridae; family of generally deepwater gulper sharks

noun:

• Tetraodon leiurus (species of pufferfish)

noun:

• Aulonocara rostratum (species of peacock cichlid from Lake Malawi)

noun:

• Aulonocara aquilonium (species of peacock cichlid from Lake Malawi)

noun:

• doublespot acara (species of S. American cichlids, Aequidens pallidus)

noun:

• yellow acara (species of cichlid in Colombia, Aequidens metae)

noun:

• owlet moth (members of the family Noctuidae); noctuid

noun:

• Trimma winchi (species of goby from the Chagos Archipelago)

noun:

• Chimaera jordani (species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark)