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• (in China) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・平調
• first lunar month

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• second note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp) (in China) ➜ 十二律・断吟
• twelfth lunar month

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• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

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• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

noun:

• Six Kingdoms (of China's Warring States period: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei & Zhao) ➜ 戦国時代

noun:

• media scrum; impromptu press conference; news gathering by a crowd of reporters

noun:

• distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage

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• re-pellet (plastics industry); regrind; grinding plastic scraps into small pieces as a form of recycling

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• clapper (two long pieces of wood that are clapped together; used in gagaku, etc.)

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

noun:

• pasha; honorary title in Ottoman Empire and pre-republican Egypt - From Turkish "paşa"

~と adverb / adverb:

• click; sound of a camera shutter - onomatopoeia ➜ パシャッと

noun:

• Cucurbita pepo; diverse species that includes many varieties of pumpkin, squash and zucchini

noun:

• BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries

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• shoemaker spinefoot (Siganus sutor, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

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• dusky spinefoot (Siganus luridus, species of rabbitfish from the Western Indian Ocean)

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• marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

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• Ctenopoma; genus of freshwater climbing gouramies with terrestrial locomotion ability in the family Anabantidae

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• Orectolobidae (family containing eleven species in three genera of carpet sharks known as wobbegongs)

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• balloon shark (Cephaloscyllium sufflans, species of catshark from the western Indian Ocean)

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

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• spotted estuary smooth-hound (Mustelus lenticulatus, species of houndshark found around southern Australia and New Zealand)

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• stripe-tailed Goanna (Varanus gilleni, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to northwestern and central Australia)

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• dusky batfish (Platax pinnatus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)

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• Edo period office in charge of compiling the koyomi, astronomical measurements, surveying, translating Western books, etc. - archaism

noun:

• inscription of a fantastic birdlike creature found on Yin and Zhou dynasty bronze ware, etc. - obscure term ➜ 文様