noun:

• Ama no Nuhoko; the heavenly jeweled spear used by Izanagi and Izanami - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• heavenly king - Buddhism term
• Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva) ➜ 牛頭天王

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• mountain language (euphemisms used by hunters, etc. when in the wild) ➜ 忌み詞

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 旅所

noun:

• Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)

expression:

• midsummer greetings; to inquiry after someone's health in the hot season - humble language ➜ 暑中お見舞い

noun:

• someone or something that just gets in the way; a burden ➜ 荷物

expression:

• craft brings nothing home; the crafty schemer drowns in his own scheme [literal] - proverb

expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom

expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

noun:

• quiver (worn on the right hip; post-Nara period)

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• catharsis; purgation; evacuation; purging the bowels; diarrhea

noun / ~する noun:

• pouring out (water, etc.) ［しゃか］ - orig. meaning

noun:

• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Persicaria orientalis); prince's feather

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• off-the-job training

noun:

• Monodontidae; cetacean family comprising the narwhal and white beluga whale

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

noun:

• lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)

noun:

• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ブラックバックバタフライフィッシュ

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• blacktip sawtail catshark (Galeus sauteri, found in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines)

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud