noun:

• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea); yellow-spotted monitor

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• (kicking and) struggling; wriggling; floundering - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); the five phases; wu xing ➜ 五大【ごだい】
• five practices of the Bodhisattvas - Buddhism term
• the five pillars of Islam ➜ 六信五行

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いけじめ］
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いけしめ
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いけしめ

noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun:

• Maruyama vaccine (said to be effective against leprosy, cancer and cutaneous tuberculosis)

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings) - obscure term ➜ 上駒

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - From English "honey toast"

noun:

• Japanese-Spanish (gen. for translations and dictionaries); Japan-Spain (e.g. intercountry trade and relations)

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• Xenarthra (superorder comprising anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos)

noun:

• compliance (with laws and ordinances)

noun:

• Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); southern barbarian [literal] - used from the Muromachi to the Edo period - archaism ➜ 紅毛人

noun:

• river in which worshippers wash their hands (and rinse their mouth) prior to entering a shrine

noun:

• Chinese classics (ethics, politics, and history)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to (relax and) stretch one's legs out
• to go for a further walk

noun:

• sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the lower eyelid)

noun:

• Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)

noun:

• cloudy catshark (Scyliorhinus torazame, species found from Japan and Korea to Taiwan)

noun:

• joint management council (labor and management)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to soar (esp. of spirits and gods)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sticking out prominently (usu. something long and thin); rising up - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's hands slip (and drop something)