noun:

• Gymnocanthus (genus of northern demersal fish in the Cottidae family)

noun:

• Cirrhoscyllium; genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae

noun:

• Parascyllium (genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae)

noun:

• Hemitriakis complicofasciata (species of houndshark found in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan)

noun:

• Varanus; genus of carnivorous monitor lizards in the family Varanidae

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun:

• bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere)

noun:

• Oreochromis; genus of tilapiine cichlids in the fish family Cichlidae

noun:

• Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)

noun:

• high-ranking staff member in the Office of Court Ladies (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• Liujiang man; one of the earliest modern humans found in East Asia

noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to look after; to take care of; to keep; to hold on to; to keep in custody
• to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to be entrusted with
• to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment); to leave undecided
• to take upon oneself (to do); to settle (a matter) oneself

expression:

• eyes of a predator; keen eyes; eyes of a cormorant, eyes of a hawk [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be used to; to get accustomed to; to be in the habit of doing
• to train; to discipline; to teach manners ➜ 躾ける
• to tack (in needlework); to baste
• to plant (esp. rice seedlings)

noun:

• Aegukga; national anthem of South Korea
• Aegukka; national anthem of North Korea; The Patriotic Song; Let Morning Shine
• The Patriotic Song; national anthem of the Russian SFSR and of the Russian Federation from 1990 to 2000

expression / noun:

• flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; passage of time; stream of time
• current of the times; trend of the times

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to flutter in the wind; to wave in the wind

noun:

• being narrow in the middle; something narrow in the middle - obscure term
• mallet - archaism ➜ 杵

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be duplicated; to be repeated ➜ ダブル
• to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to coincide
• to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.)
• to make a double play - Baseball term ➜ ダブルプレー
• to make a double fault (in tennis) - Sports term ➜ ダブルフォールト

noun:

• traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets ➜ 羽織
• livery coat ➜ 印半纏
• half the sky ［半天］
• mid-air; middle of the sky ［半天］

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to disappear into; to be lost in; to slip into; to get mixed in among
• to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.)
• to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar
• to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.); to forget about
• to be distracted by; to be too absorbed in

noun:

• three ministries (under the ritsuryo system: Ministries of Civil Services, Health & War) ➜ 律令制
• three departments (in Tang-dynasty China: Secretariat, Chancellory & Dept. of State Affairs)

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)