noun:

• Star of David; Magen David

noun:

• Babylonian Captivity (of the Israelites, 586 BC - 539 BC)

noun:

• ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead

expression:

• women's liberation
• The Subjection of Women (book by JS Mill)

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era ➜ 大新聞
• minor journal; local newspaper

noun:

• Taiwanese squirrel (subspecies of Pallas's squirrel, Callosciurus erythraeus thaiwanensis)

noun:

• placing of concrete; positioning concrete

noun:

• program review; budget screening; review and prioritization of government programs

noun:

• spreading a piece of wet washing or paper on a board

noun / ~する noun:

• isolation (e.g. of a particular chemical substance within a mixture)

noun:

• type of illegal loan charging 10% interest every 10 days

expression:

• views in and around the city of Kyoto (paintings and drawings) ➜ 図・洛中洛外

noun:

• saddleback butterflyfish (Chaetodon ephippium, species of the Indo-Pacific); saddled butterflyfish

noun:

• peppered spinefoot (Siganus punctatissimus, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); finespotted rabbitfish

noun:

• dusky farmerfish (Stegastes nigricans, species of Indo-Pacific damselfish); dusky gregory

noun:

• epaulette surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricauda, Indo-Pacific species of tang); blackstreak surgeonfish

noun:

• return to the palace (usu. of the empress, crown prince, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran, the largest species of hammerhead shark) ➜ グレートハンマーヘッド

noun:

• blue tang surgeonfish (Acanthurus coeruleus, species of Atlantic tang)

expression:

• a fish out of water; a kappa up on the land [literal] ➜ 河童

noun:

• scatty (Scatophagus tetracanthus, species of Indo-West Pacific scat); African scat

noun:

• night before the full moon; 14th day of the lunar calendar ➜ 望月

noun:

• mountain covered in autumn colours at the end of autumn ➜ 紅葉

noun:

• faint reflection of light upon the water in the dark

noun:

• Vardhana dynasty (of India, 606-647 CE); Vardhan dynasty