noun:

• Metal Age (i.e. the Bronze Age and the Iron Age)

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

noun:

• simple deer-hunting blind (horizontal branches and brushwood) - archaism

noun:

• loitering at night (between 11 pm and 4 am); late-night prowling

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三霊山【にほんさんれいざん】

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本切羽
• surgeon's cuffs

noun:

• welcome board (e.g. placed outside wedding reception to greet guests, and confirm location)

noun:

• daggernose shark (Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus, species of requiem shark found in Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil)

noun:

• paulownia crest (three leaves with seven blossoms on the center lead and five blossoms on each side leaf)

noun:

• mixed writing (kanji and kana)

noun:

• temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)
• name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)

noun:

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

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ ですます体

noun:

• Kinki region (incl. Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)

noun:

• Trimma caudipunctatum (species of goby found in Japan and Palau)

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow) ➜ 藍摺

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings)

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• nursing care level (between 1 and 5 based on assessment of care requirements) ➜ 要介護

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a family (e.g. wife or husband and children); to raise a family ➜ 所帯を持つ

noun:

• English-Japanese (usu. for translation and dictionaries) ➜ 日英

noun:

• problems caused by the elderly (esp. gerontocracy, and elderly people's control over the young)