noun:

• parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)

expression:

• (with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force - idiom

noun:

• (the extent of) one's vocabulary

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• pick-guard (protective patch on a shamisen, etc.)

noun:

• Achernar (star in the constellation Eridanus); Alpha Eridani - Astronomy term

expression / noun:

• official history (e.g. a state-sanctioned account of history subject to revision when the government changes)

noun:

• person who sees someone else off (e.g. at the airport) ➜ 迎え人

noun:

• deep autumn (when the autumn has reached its climax)

noun:

• Fomalhaut (star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus); Alpha Piscis Austrini - Astronomy term

noun:

• Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 胃

noun:

• explanatory notes (at the start of a book); introductory remarks; usage guide (e.g. of a dictionary)
• legend (on maps, drawings, etc.) ➜ キャプション

noun:

• garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds) - archaism

noun:

• Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• self-motion (esp. in the Hegelian dialectic, dialectical materialism, etc.); self-movement

noun:

• super spreader (carrier of a viral disease who spreads the virus to a large number of other people)

noun:

• Tsushima marten (Martes melampus tsuensis, a subspecies of the Japanese marten) ➜ 貂

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

noun:

• dharmalaksana (dharma characteristics, the specific characteristics of all manifest phenomena) - Buddhism term ➜ 法性
• Hosso sect of Buddhism - abbreviation ➜ 法相宗

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

noun:

• Shisui Faction (of the LDP)

noun:

• ferret badger (esp. the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata)

noun:

• (the crime of) bribery

noun:

• Randall's pygmy goby (Trimma randalli, species in Palau and the Philippines)