noun:

• sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) - esp. 吉備団子
• millet dumplings - esp. 黍団子

noun:

• Gelidium japonicum (species of seaweed)

noun:

• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves) - Buddhism term ➜ 布団

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to meet (someone of higher status) ➜ お目にかかる
• to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); to be visible; to be seen; to be noticed - archaism

noun:

• little tern (the official bird of Chiba); sterna albifrons

noun:

• concussion (of the brain)

noun:

• Monema flavescens (species of slug moth)

noun:

• Trimma imaii (species of goby found in Japan)

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

noun:

• (study of) constitutional law

noun:

• grain (1-7000 of a pound, approx. 64.80 mg)
• grain (wheat, etc.) ➜ グレーンウイスキー

noun:

• yang yao (unbroken line composing one third of a trigram) ➜ 爻

noun:

• mantissa (e.g. of a logarithm)

noun:

• roguelike (genre of computer game with typically ASCII graphics) ➜ ＠系

noun:

• Lyristes japonicus (species of cicada)

noun:

• soldier fly (any fly of family Stratiomyidae, esp. species Stratiomys japonica)

noun:

• Nipponocypris sieboldii (species of cyprinid)

noun:

• (time of) extreme cold
• "major cold" solar term (approx. Jan 20, roughly the coldest time of the year) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• Ise Shinto (school of Shinto established the Watarai family priests of Ise Jingu's Outer Shrine)

noun:

• gromwell root (of species Lithospermum erythrorhizon) ➜ 紫

noun:

• Shoku Nihon Kouki (fourth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史

noun:

• soft ray (of a fin) ➜ 鰭条

noun:

• coherence theory (theory that a proposition is true if it corresponds with a specified set of other propositions) ➜ 対応説

noun:

• Shingon sect (of Buddhism)

noun:

• gown technique (i.e. use of gowns in sterile environments)