noun:

• Arecaceae (palm family of plants); Palmae

noun:

• bushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb / ~の noun:

• dispersed (of citizens in a war-torn country, etc.)

noun:

• physics (study of natural science in ancient Greek philosophy) ➜ 自然哲学

noun:

• Asarum nipponicum (species of wild ginger)

noun:

• symphylan (any centipede-like arthropod of class Symphyla)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise one's head (esp. of a snake)

noun:

• story; tale
• unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting ➜ 平曲

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period - abbreviation ➜ 幸若舞

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)