expression:

• good medicine tastes bitter; the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to - proverb

noun:

• clownfish (Amphiprioninae spp., esp. the yellowtail clownfish, Amphiprion clarkii); anemone fish

noun:

• Potsdam Conference (Jul.-Aug., 1945 conference regarding the postwar occupation of Germany)

noun:

• Lorelei (Loreley); Rhine maiden who lured sailors to their doom
• rock in the Rhine

noun:

• Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

suffix:

• honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status - honorific language

noun:

• statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒菩薩

noun:

• small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (i.e. on Awaji Island) ➜ 四国八十八箇所

expression:

• with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; with the force of surging waves [literal]

noun:

• tide pool; rocky place where sea water remains after the tide draws out

noun:

• sea pen (any coelenterate of the family Pennatulidae or related families); sea feather

noun:

• football fish (any fish of family Himantolophidae, esp. the Atlantic footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus)

noun:

• skate (Rajinidae spp., esp. the Kwangtung skate, Dipturus kwangtungensis)

noun:

• civil service competitive examination for some positions in the public education system in France - From French "agregation"

noun:

• convict surgeonfish (Acanthurus triostegus, species of the Indo-Pacific); convict tang; manini ➜ コンヴィクトサージャンフィッシュ

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun:

• dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis, species of hound shark found in the Western Atlantic)

noun:

• hardnose shark (Carcharhinus macloti, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• graceful shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, species of requiem shark found in the tropical Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• spadenose shark (Scoliodon laticaudus, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• shiku-kaisei city planning; city renewal that occurred in the Taisho and Meiji eras

noun:

• record of information about a Buddhist statue (usu. an inconspicuous inscription on the statue)

adverb:

• a very short while ago; very early (e.g. in the morning)

noun:

• Delhi Dynasties; the Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, and Lodi dynasties of India ➜ デリースルタン朝