noun:

• electric catfish (any species of family Malapteruridae, esp. species Malapterurus electricus)

noun:

• barque (three-masted sailing ship); bark; barc
• bark (of a tree, etc.)

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• sin of having sexual relations with a woman (for a Buddhist priest)

noun:

• steered wheel (e.g. at the front of a car); steering wheel

noun / ~する noun:

• concurrently studying the teachings of two or more different schools or sects

noun:

• stairs - はし refers to the stairs leading from a building to a garden ➜ 階段
• stairs at the front of a noh stage ［きざはし］

noun:

• vermiculated spinefoot (Siganus vermiculatus, species of Indo-West Pacific rabbitfish); vermiculate rabbitfish

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Western Tottori prefecture and Eastern Shimane prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• sailfin tang (Zebrasoma velifer, species of Pacific tang also found off Mozambique)

noun:

• boa catshark (Scyliorhinus boa, species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico)

noun:

• Carcharhinus (the type genus of the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii, species of Indo-West Pacific hammerhead shark) ➜ ウィングヘッドシャーク

noun:

• post horse; horses used in the post-station system of old Japan - archaism

noun:

• tree covered in fresh green leaves; newly green trees of early Summer ➜ 新緑・若葉

noun:

• door made of one or several wooden planks and no door framework ➜ 桟唐戸

noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion - archaism ➜ 御殿女中・奥女中

godan ~う verb:

• to entangle themselves together (e.g. of butterflies); to be intertwined ➜ からみあう

noun:

• (one's) handling of the reins; how well one controls things

noun:

• Uden Shinto (Shinto doctrines enunciated by Kamo no Norikiyo of Kamigamo Shrine)

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow

noun:

• backmarker (competitor at the tail of the field, likely to be lapped)

noun:

• smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena, species of hammerhead shark)

noun:

• soft focus (photography, film); out-of-focus technique - From English "out focus"