noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni)

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran ➜ 襴

noun:

• implements used to enhance the effect of a play (e.g. props, costumes, etc.)

noun:

• day in the near future when a major event is expected to occur - colloquialism - From English "X-day"

noun:

• raised tatami-floored seating area (usu. in a Japanese restaurant); small separate dining room

noun:

• (in China) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp) ➜ 十二律・鸞鏡
• seventh lunar month

noun:

• transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another) ➜ 式年遷宮祭

noun:

• freestanding building, often in a park, used for receptions, dinners, etc. - From English "restaurant house"

noun:

• framing (e.g. a picture)
• flaming; hostile and insulting interaction between persons over the internet

noun:

• flux (substance mixed with a solid in order to lower its melting point); fusing agent

expression:

• a man of virtue will naturally attract admirers; good wine speaks for itself - proverb

noun:

• Stegostomatidae; family of Indo-Pacific carpet sharks containing a single species, Stegostoma fasciatum

noun:

• Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi, a large species of tarantula) ➜ ルブロンオオツチグモ

noun:

• Luvaridae; family containing one extant species of perciform fish similar to a surgeonfish

noun:

• long, thin, roofless small boat (used as a river taxi during the Edo period)

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• aural highlight of a noh play in which the main actor dances ➜ 曲【くせ】・仕手

noun:

• moon, snow and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 雪月花

noun:

• branch-twined hedge around a field to keep out wild boars and deer
• abatis

noun:

• Fuyutopia (government program to help create a winter living environment in northern Hokkaido)

noun:

• pipe buried under a road with nozzles that spray liquid to melt snow

noun:

• throwaway match (i.e. one played after a tournament has already been decided); dead rubber

noun:

• use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)

noun:

• umbrella polypore sclerotium (used as a diuretic, antipyretic, and antitussive in traditional Chinese medicine) ➜ 猪苓舞茸

noun:

• sweet burdock and miso-bean paste covered with a thin layer of mochi