noun:

• associate member (esp. of a crime syndicate)

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

noun / ~の noun:

• alternate (esp. of leaf arrangement) - Botany term

noun:

• Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Pleiades; Seven Sisters ➜ 昴

expression:

• little by little (recovering after an illness); slowly but surely

noun:

• Settsu (former province covering parts of modern Osaka and Hyogo) ➜ 五畿内【ごきない】

noun:

• skua (any bird of family Stercorariidae, incl. the jaegers)
• pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus); pomarine skua

noun / ~の noun:

• uncut (esp. of a book, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a spectacular photograph (often of the female form); taking a photo at just the right moment - colloquialism

noun:

• powerful photograph; intense photograph

noun:

• publishing (of books, magazines, etc.)

noun:

• (theory of) isostasy - obscure term ➜ アイソスタシー

noun / ~する noun:

• assay (of metal, ore, etc.); assaying

noun:

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

noun / ~の noun:

• long period (of time)

noun:

• Nagata-chou (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)

noun:

• katharevousa (traditional literary form of modern Greek) - From Greek ➜ デモティキ

noun:

• Japanese butterfly bush (species of buddleia, Buddleja japonica)

noun:

• main shock (of an earthquake)

noun:

• Eviota partimacula (species of pygmy goby found in the Marshall Islands)

noun:

• vice president (of a club or organization, organisation)

noun:

• Trimma sheppardi (species of goby found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• (study of) information systems

noun:

• rod (shape of cell) ➜ 桿状体

noun:

• Apristurus (genus of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae known as ghost or demon catsharks)

noun:

• three banishment punishments (of different severity) (under ritsuryo system) ➜ 遠流・中流・近流