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• ranking system based on dan and kyū (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.) ➜ 級・段

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• Heterodontus (sole genus of living bullhead sharks in the family Heterodontidae)

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• Parmaturus (genus containing 9 species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae)

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• Scyliorhinus (genus containing 15 species of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae)

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• small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula, species found in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

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• swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific)

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• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

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• Proscylliidae; family of finback catsharks containing seven species in four genera

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• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

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• Rhizoprionodon (genus of sharpnose sharks in the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

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• bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere) ➜ ボンネットヘッド・ボンネット撞木鮫【ボンネットしゅもくざめ】

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• Prionurus (genus of surgeonfish and sawtail tangs in the family Acanthuridae)

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• writings on many different topics ➜ 雑書
• book that cannot be classified in any category

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• leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group

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• Japan's first coinage (dating to 683 CE, but perhaps never in circulation) ➜ 和同開珎

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• curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences (used by people of high rank) ➜ 寝殿造り・帳台

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• government office in charge of court music (ritsuryo period) ➜ 雅楽・律令

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• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

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• parched flour, esp. barley (can be drunk in hot water with sugar) - Food term ➜ 麦こがし・香煎

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• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

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• pavilion housing the emperor's bathing quarters and dressing chamber (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

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• side dish served in order to encourage the consumption of alcohol (kaiseki cuisine) ➜ 懐石料理

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• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

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• snow remaining in the form of a mist after it has melted

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• mechanism used to lift an actor onto the stage (in kabuki)