noun:

• Edo-period unit of silver coinage ［銀目］
• steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat)
• silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica) - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ 銀目鯛

noun:

• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised)

noun:

• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised) ➜ 心学

noun:

• kabufuda; type of playing cards
• tag verifying merchant guild membership (Edo period) ➜ 株仲間【かぶなかま】

noun / ~の noun:

• (dental) alveolus; (dental) alveoli; socket in the jaw containing the root of a tooth

noun:

• daughter of the home; unmarried woman who owns (the future rights to) a home

noun:

• developing new ideas based on study of the past; learning from the past - four character idiom

noun:

• win of a low-ranked wrestler in the extra eighth bout in the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• loss of a low-ranked wrestler in the extra eighth bout in the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be put at a disadvantage; to get the short end of the stick

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence

noun:

• Law Concerning the Promotion of Specific Non-Profit Organization Activities (1998); the NPO Law ➜ ＮＰＯ法

noun:

• memorial services for the founder of the sect (esp. for Shinran in Shin Buddhism) - Buddhism term

noun:

• the "wa" column of the Japanese syllabary table (wa, wi, we, wo)

noun:

• fighting scene; scene of carnage (bloodshed)
• location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra ［しゅらじょう］ ➜ 阿修羅【あしゅら】・帝釈天【たいしゃくてん】
• difficulties (in a love relationship) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism
• crunch time (esp. for cartoonists) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism

noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil) ➜ カリビアンリーフシャーク

noun:

• whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

noun:

• tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko ➜ 玳瑁
• tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle) - in Chinese medicine ➜ 鼈

adverbial noun / noun:

• to the end of time; to the crack of doom; for ever and ever

noun:

• first day of the month - archaism
• first ten days of the lunar month