noun:

• heavenly king - Buddhism term
• Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva) ➜ 牛頭天王

expression:

• great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom

noun:

• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"

noun:

• Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)

expression:

• great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom ➜ 飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢い

expression / adjective:

• lazy; indolent; reluctant to get up off one's backside
• clumsy

expression / ichidan verb:

• to rush out from one's mouth (words, phrases, etc.)

noun:

• inflatable (in the sense of "needs to be inflated for normal use")

noun:

• animated film released direct-to-video - From English "original video animation"

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• guaranty; guarantee
• fee paid to performing artists, etc.

noun:

• bonus paid to sports people for excellent performance - From English "talent money"

noun:

• pharmacy (esp. one without facilities to prepare their own medicines); drugstore; chemist

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to spend all of one's time in idle amusement

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• cloudy catshark (Scyliorhinus torazame, species found from Japan and Korea to Taiwan)

noun:

• perentie (Varanus giganteus, largest species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia)

noun:

• mother (fungal colony used to start fermentation); starter culture; seed fungus

noun:

• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子

noun:

• fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• sixth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and north-west) ➜ 九星

noun:

• eighth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and north-east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• agnosia (loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells)

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007