noun:

• rock tripe (edible lichen used as medication in Korea, China and Japan)

noun:

• Siganidae; family of fishes known as rabbitfishes, spinefoots and foxfaces

noun:

• toad venom (used as an analgesic and cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• rough cardboard made from straw
• low-grade paper (used as a lining) - archaism

expression / noun:

• misty mountain with blossoming buds and flowers as it appears in spring

noun:

• fish cake (made from sardines, used as a fertilizer); sardine meal

adverb:

• piercingly (as though cutting with a sharp sword) - onomatopoeia ➜ ぐさりと
• hard-hitting (e.g. criticism) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• collecting rocks and mineral specimens (as a hobby) - From English "stone hunting"

expression / noun:

• family crest shaped as a hemp leaf
• motif made from entwined hexagons

expression:

• ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

noun:

• xiaochi; Chinese street food consumed as a light meal or snack - Food term

noun:

• blowfly or green bottle fly larva (oft. used as fishing bait)

noun:

• Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari)
• the Minamoto family

noun:

• 8 am; the fifth hour; the Hour of the Dragon

noun:

• the kalpa of existence (the second aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• the kalpa of destruction (the third aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

expression / adverb:

• in the end; at the end of the day

noun:

• reviving the dead; calling back the spirits of the dead

expression:

• scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• in all parts of the world; in all countries; anywhere in the world; both in the Occident and the Orient

expression:

• out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den [literal] - proverb

noun:

• losing the means of livelihood
• a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended - archaism
• (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge ➜ 妻入り

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

noun / ~する noun:

• the end of the match; the end of the game