noun:

• forget-me-not (esp. the water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides)

noun:

• Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)

noun:

• Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924)

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to span (e.g. a stream with a bridge)

noun:

• First Epistle to Timothy (book of the Bible)

noun:

• sutra-reading time (in morning and evening) - obscure term

expression:

• like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

noun:

• auxiliary intervenor (in a lawsuit)

noun:

• book of hours (devotional book popular in the Middle Ages)

suffix:

• castle (in place names)

noun:

• Eviota ocellifer (species of pygmy goby from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan)

noun:

• standing by at home (e.g. to prevent the spread of illness)
• being on furlough; being temporarily laid off

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)

noun:

• on par (in golf, meeting par for that hole) - From English "par on"

noun:

• Neoharriotta (genus with three species of long-nosed chimaeras in the family Rhinochimaeridae)

noun:

• sphere of fixed stars (in the Ptolemaic system)

noun:

• Galeus (genus of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae)

noun:

• tearoom attached to a theater (esp. in Kabuki)

noun:

• voice chat (e.g. in a video game)

noun:

• Gulf surgeonfish (Acanthurus randalli, species of tang found in Florida and northeastern Gulf of Mexico)

noun:

• proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)

~と adverb:

• (with a) start - onomatopoeia ➜ ぎくり

~する noun:

• to feel shocked - onomatopoeia ➜ ぎくり

noun:

• see-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys) ➜ 三猿

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dye (in patterns)

noun:

• Murakumo no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia) - obscure term ➜ 天叢雲剣