noun:

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

noun:

• Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century) - From Portuguese "padre"
• Christianity; Christian

expression:

• something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow) - obscure term

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

noun:

• Engen era (of the Southern Court) (1336.2.29-1340.4.28)

noun:

• online handle (esp. on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously); screen name; user name - colloquialism
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously) - colloquialism

suffix noun:

• (for the) whole month

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun:

• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) ➜ 精霊飛蝗

noun:

• school bag (usu. handheld or hung from the shoulder); schoolbag

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

• long-lived program (on TV, radio, etc.); long runner

noun:

• Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢節 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢節 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen ➜ うた沢

noun:

• giant petrel (esp. the southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus)

noun:

• area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956) ➜ 青線地帯

noun:

• three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)

noun:

• fur coat (to protect against the cold)
• clothes made with the down of birds

noun:

• waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

noun:

• closed-mouthed form (statue with closed mouth, symbolizing the "um" half of "aum")

noun:

• split election (where two or more candidates from the same party stand)

noun:

• ceremony for appointing officials other than ministers (from the Heian period)

noun:

• Hangul language (improper neologism for the Korean language) ➜ 韓国語

noun:

• six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu) ➜ 三途の川