noun:

• yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)

godan ~る verb:

• to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper); to make up - slang - humorous term

noun:

• soot-colored bamboo (coloured)
• bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end) ➜ すす払い

noun:

• Lord (title of respect for nobility, etc.) - archaism - honorific language
• Sukune (third highest of the eight hereditary titles) ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)
• countryside - archaism

noun:

• Imperial Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)

noun:

• Shuhari; three stages of learning mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, parting with traditional wisdom - Martial Arts term

noun:

• single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars

expression / ichidan verb:

• to able to enter the New Year (i.e. have work finished, debts paid, etc.)

noun:

• lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)

noun:

• Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes) ➜ ゼノンの逆説

noun:

• beriberi ➜ 脚気【かっけ】

noun / ~する noun / ~と adverb:

• tearing off something stuck on the surface of something else (e.g. duct tape) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• skipping grades; the act of entering a new school as a non-first-year student

noun:

• horn shark (Heterodontus francisci, a bullhead shark from the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon, sole species of the carpet shark genus Eucrossorhinus) ➜ タッセルドウォビゴン

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• Australian swellshark (Cephaloscyllium laticeps, species of catshark which inhabits the continental shelf of southern Australia)

noun:

• series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet ➜ 兜

noun:

• hairstyle for men and women from early Edo era to the Genroku era

noun:

• multiple people holding the same item with their chopsticks
• passing something from chopstick to chopstick

noun:

• show-off bra; wearing clothes that reveal part of the bra (on purpose)

expression:

• come!; imperative form of the verb "kuru" ("to come"), expressing a command or strong request ➜ 来る【くる】

noun:

• Seven Bridge; Japanese card game where the '7' card is special

noun:

• taking the entrance examination for a school without regard for one's chances of passing

noun:

• purple vestment (traditionally awarded by the imperial household); high-ranking priest's purple robe