noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun / ~する noun:

• squatting (usu. with elbows on knees and often while smoking, typically considered a low-class posture)

noun:

• Treaty of San Stefano (ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1878) ➜ 露土戦争

noun:

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

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to increase (all the more)

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun / ~の noun:

• black tip - original meaning - archaism

suffix / counter:

• counter for loads (that can be carried on one's shoulders)

noun / ~する noun:

• being initiated (e.g. into the arts); receiving instruction ➜ 伝授

noun:

• food reportage (on TV)

noun:

• eisa (Okinawan folk dance that marks the end of the Bon festival)

noun:

• mifepristone (abortifacient steroid developed under the name RU-486)

noun:

• Insecta (class comprising the insects)

noun:

• clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)

noun:

• court mourning (for the late emperor or empress); national mourning

noun:

• indulgence (esp. in the Catholic Church)
• excuse; justification; rationalization

noun:

• death (and entering the hereafter)

noun:

• (the so-called) kanji culture

noun:

• greater waterfall (of the two)

noun:

• caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona) - obscure term ➜ 足無井守

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to frown (on); to be grim-faced; to look sullen

noun:

• Thalassoma (genus of brightly colored fish of the wrasse family Labridae)

noun:

• limit price (e.g. on a stock transaction); price limit

noun:

• riverbank (esp. the Yangtze River) - obscure term ➜ 長江

noun:

• Carcharhinus (the type genus of the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• Hemigaleus (genus of the weasel shark family Hemigaleidae)