noun:

• equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

expression:

• good wine makes good blood; sake is the best of all medicines - proverb

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• miscellany (classification of Japanese poetry unrelated to the seasons or to love)

noun:

• lip reading (esp. in context of deaf people); lipreading; speech reading; speechreading ➜ 読唇術

noun:

• apricot (Prunus armeniaca)
• Prunus persica var. densa (Chinese variety of peach) ➜ 寿星桃

noun:

• Eid al-Fitr (festival marking the end of Ramadan); Id ul-Fitr - From Arabic

noun:

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

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:

• 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:

• 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