expression:

• moderation is its own medicine; take care of your stomach; don't overeat - proverb

noun:

• ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)

prefix:

• greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior - also written as 正 - archaism ➜ 従【ひろい】

noun / adjectival noun:

• a great deal; very much ➜ 大いなる・大いに

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り

adjectival noun:

• neglectful (i.e. in the treatment of one's guests)

adjectival noun:

• neglectful (i.e. in the treatment of one's guests) - polite language

noun:

• allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture) ➜ 海老責め・石抱き・鞭打ち

noun:

• gold-leaf-coated twisted paper
• Agrimonia pilosa var. japonica (variety of hairy agrimony) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Akhal-Teke, a breed of horses originating in Turkmenistan

noun:

• Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on pre-Jin and Yuan teachings ➜ 後世方

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to not be worthy of the reputation (e.g. restaurant, Diet member, etc.)

noun:

• tuna minced with Welsh onion leaves (type of sushi topping)

noun:

• striker (triangular piece of steel used with flint to create sparks)

adverb / ~たる adjective:

• looking cool and collect; with an air of perfect composure

noun:

• way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

noun:

• type of conical hat that covers the whole head (used by Komuso monks) ➜ 笠・虚無僧

noun:

• brown surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigrofuscus, species of Indo-Pacific tang)

noun:

• Eviota abax (species of pygmy goby ranging from Southern Japan to Hainan Is.)

noun:

• yellowfin surgeonfish (Acanthurus xanthopterus, Indo-Pacific species of tang)

noun:

• striated surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus striatus, species of bristletooth tang native to the Indo- Pacific)

noun:

• twospot surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus binotatus, species of bristletooth tang native to the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Chimaeridae; family of shortnose chimaeras, cartilaginous fish with short round snouts

noun:

• Heterodontus (sole genus of living bullhead sharks in the family Heterodontidae)

noun:

• Parmaturus (genus containing 9 species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae)