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

noun:

• Thymallus; genus of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae

noun:

• Gymnocanthus (genus of northern demersal fish in the Cottidae family)

noun:

• Chimaera owstoni (species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark found in Japan)

noun:

• Cirrhoscyllium; genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae

noun:

• Parascyllium (genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae)

noun:

• Proscyllium venustum (species of finback catshark found in Japan's Okinawa Trough)

noun:

• Varanus; genus of carnivorous monitor lizards in the family Varanidae

noun:

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

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun:

• (ritsuryo system) teacher responsible for training in astronomy, astrology, calendar-making, etc. - archaism

noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

noun:

• roofed corridor connecting two buildings (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)

noun:

• tweezers (esp. in a medical or laboratory setting); forceps ➜ ピンセット

noun:

• bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere)

noun:

• muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking - slang

noun:

• Tengin Bank robbery (1948), in which 12 people died of cyanide poisoning

noun:

• Oreochromis; genus of tilapiine cichlids in the fish family Cichlidae

noun:

• dapeng (giant bird in Chinese mythology, similar to the roc or Garuda)

noun:

• Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)

noun:

• appointed official sent to administer a certain region (in the Ryukyu Kingdom)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to kick flying (often a person in sport, martial arts, etc.)

noun:

• isolated fall of a security or currency in an otherwise strong market