expression / noun:

• seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season

godan ~る verb:

• to have your party wiped out (in the RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne) - slang

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to exit - slang ➜ 入り待ち

noun:

• whitespotted bambooshark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum); white-spotted catshark (species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula, species found in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

noun:

• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• thin leather with gold patterns (introduced from Europe during the Edo period)

noun:

• confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized ➜ カステラ・ボーロ・コンペイトー

noun:

• pavilion housing the emperor's bathing quarters and dressing chamber (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

noun:

• mechanism used to lift an actor onto the stage (in kabuki)

noun:

• inaw (ritual wood shaving stick used in Ainu prayers to the spiritual world.) - From Ainu

noun:

• adult striped mullet ➜ 鯔【ぼら】

adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done - abbreviation ➜ とどのつまり

expression / noun:

• page in the history books; historical (event); old news

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• garment worn under the hanpi undergarment or hou robe in court ceremonial dress - archaism ➜ 半臂・袍

noun:

• man who causes the weather to become sunny when he gets out ➜ 雨男

noun:

• woman who causes the weather to become sunny when she goes out ➜ 雨女

noun:

• alcohol or sake drunk during the meal (as opposed to aperitifs, digestifs, etc.)

noun:

• Osteichthyes; class comprising the bony fishes (and sometimes their descendants, i.e. tetrapods)

noun / ~する noun:

• prostration; placing knees, hands and forehead on the ground to show utmost respect - Buddhism term

noun:

• person who administered religious rituals within the dazaifu jurisdiction (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 大宰府【だざいふ】

noun:

• purifying salt (thrown in the sumo ring before a bout, after funerals, etc.) ➜ 清めの塩

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle