noun:

• meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine ➜ 血合い

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun / expression:

• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern"

noun:

• rugged mountain (of the more rugged mountain of a pair of mountains) ➜ 女山

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand consisting of one pung of 1s, one pung of 9s and one tile each of every other number, plus one more suited tile, all in the same suit - Mahjong term - From English "chi"

noun:

• glasnost; Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues in the 1980s - From Russian "glasnost'"

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matters

noun:

• endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences - four character idiom - Buddhism term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• of great renown; highly illustrious; at the zenith of one's fame - four character idiom

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

suffix:

• honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status - honorific language

noun:

• statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒菩薩

noun:

• small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (i.e. on Awaji Island) ➜ 四国八十八箇所

noun:

• draft of magazine's content (a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• the art of giving a brief glimpse of something (e.g. one's underwear)

noun / ~と adverb:

• sound of the expulsion of soft matter mixed with water; diarrhea, etc. sounds; watery - onomatopoeia

noun:

• kana written after a kanji to complete the full (usually kun) reading of the word; declensional kana ending

noun:

• young person acting like an old person
• officials who helped the council of elders during the Edo period ➜ 老中

noun:

• grasping the trend; firmly understanding how the situation is developing; getting a good sense of how things are changing - four character idiom

noun:

• terracotta army (clay figurines found near the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor in China); terracotta warriors and horses ➜ 兵馬

noun:

• blackeye rabbitfish (Siganus puelloides, species of rabbitfish found in the Maldives and the Similan Islands)

noun:

• Triaenodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the whitetip reef shark)

noun:

• Gray's monitor (Varanus olivaceus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from Luzon and the Catanduanes Islands in the Philippines)

noun:

• prize archery
• imperial archery event held annually on the 18th day of the first lunar month (Heian period)