noun:

• greybearded pygmy goby (Trimma annosum, from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• candycane pygmy goby (Trimma cana, species from the Western Pacific)

expression:

• opportunity only knocks once; strike while the iron is hot - proverb

noun:

• Rhinochimaera africana (species of cartilaginous fish from the Southeast Atlantic)

noun:

• brownbanded bambooshark (Chiloscyllium punctatum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• grey bambooshark (Chiloscyllium griseum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• hairstyle with buns on each side of the head

noun:

• Hemipristis; genus of the weasel shark family Hemigaleidae

noun:

• Hemigaleus (genus of the weasel shark family Hemigaleidae)

expression / adjective:

• unthinkable; count for nothing; not matter; out of the question

noun:

• doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus, species of tang from the Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period) ➜ 仏所

noun:

• mole under the eye (supposedly due to having cried)

noun:

• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

noun:

• Yamato (province) ➜ 大和
• Japan ➜ 日本
• the art of classical Japanese poetry - abbreviation ➜ 敷島の道

noun:

• large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods

noun:

• early phase of the shoin-zukuri residential architecture style ➜ 書院造

noun:

• type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period) ➜ 歌垣

noun:

• banquet and concert pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• farmland - archaism ➜ 田地
• private farm estates from before the Taika reform - archaism

noun:

• double election (e.g. of the lower and higher chambers)

noun:

• Tōhoku harvest divination event (14th night of the New Year) ➜ 年占

noun:

• Asiatic glassfish (e.g. the Indian glassy fish, Parambassis ranga)

noun:

• Hozukius emblemarius (species of fish closely related to the rockfish)

noun:

• tax exemption for a child under the age of 16