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

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun / ~する noun:

• going crazy; losing one's temper; snapping - slang - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• sound of a stretched string snapping - onomatopoeia ➜ ぷつん

noun:

• quasi-negation (e.g. use of words like 'hardly', 'seldom', 'barely'); weak negation - obscure term - Linguistics term

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens) ➜ プリムラ

noun:

• use of a verb or adjective conjugation (esp. ren'yōkei) as a noun ➜ 連用形

noun:

• aureole (of a Buddhist statue; surrounding the body but not the head); aureola

noun:

• the three tones of Chinese that exclude the high-level, or first, tone

expression:

• one thing after another; out of the frying pan and into the fire - idiom

expression / noun:

• demonym; name used to refer to the residents of a country, region, etc.

expression:

• I don't care what follows; the future will take care of itself - proverb

expression:

• nothing comes of nothing; don't expect things to happen on their own - proverb

expression:

• you don't appreciate the value of good health until you lose it - proverb - obscure term

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings) - obscure term ➜ 上駒

noun:

• small mochi placed on top of a big mochi
• two things heaped together

noun:

• ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata) - archaism ➜ 蔦
• jiaogulan (species of herbaceous vine; Gynostemma pentaphyllum) ➜ 甘茶蔓

noun:

• laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (type of laser eye surgery); LASIK

noun:

• sun spider (any arachnid of order Solifugae); wind scorpion; camel spider; solpugid

noun:

• Eleocharis kuroguwai (species of spikerush)
• Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa) ➜ 大黒慈姑

noun:

• ijtihad (use of discretionary judgement in deducing a law not specified in scripture) - From Arabic

noun:

• frogfish (any fish of family Antennariidae, esp. the striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus) - sensitive ➜ 蛙鮟鱇