noun:

• nursing care level (between 1 and 5 based on assessment of care requirements) ➜ 要介護

expression:

• it is difficult to say which of the two is better

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remain faithful to the memory of one's husband and never remarry

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a point of honor; to affect someone's good name

expression:

• knowing no bounds; showing no signs of stopping or slowing down

noun:

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

noun:

• drawing a dish towards oneself using one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• click beetle; skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae)

noun:

• corpus delicti (concrete evidence of a crime, e.g. a bullet-riddled body)

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星

noun:

• standard days signifying the changing of the seasons (i.e. setsubun, higan, etc.)

noun:

• drum; croaker (any fish of the family Sciaenidae)
• Nibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii)

noun:

• woolly monkey (any New World monkey of genus Lagothrix)

noun:

• green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus, sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Chlorocebus aethiops) ➜ サバンナモンキー

noun:

• hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)

noun:

• Tempyo period (esp. used as a period of art history, 710-794 CE)

noun:

• Di (ancient Chinese ethnic group)
• Chinese "root" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】

noun:

• Chinese lespedeza (species of bush clover, Lespedeza cuneata) - archaism ➜ 蓍萩
• fortune-telling (using divination sticks)

noun:

• dwelling place of a god (usu. in reference to a large rock) - archaism

noun:

• black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes)
• estrildid (any bird of family Estrildidae); waxbill

noun:

• basket star (any brittlestar of family Euryalina); basket fish ➜ 蜘蛛海星

noun:

• guardian deity of the three jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• three-person saddle

noun:

• Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department) - obsolete term ➜ 官幣社

noun:

• Yoshida Shinto; fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) - obscure term ➜ 宋学