noun:

• lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)

noun:

• man in charge of delivering letters and packages during the Edo period

noun:

• ancient type of koto with 13 strings used in Gagaku music

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence

adverb:

• evenly; equably; in an uniform and orderly fashion

noun:

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

noun:

• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ブラックバックバタフライフィッシュ

noun:

• Thymallus; genus of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae

noun:

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

noun:

• Eviota shimadai (species of pygmy goby found in Japan, Palau and Indonesia)

noun:

• Trimma nomurai (species of goby found in Japan, Indonesia and New Caledonia)

noun:

• Chimaera owstoni (species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark found in Japan)

noun:

• Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni, found in southern Australia and New Zealand)

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• blacktip sawtail catshark (Galeus sauteri, found in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines)

noun:

• Proscyllium venustum (species of finback catshark found in Japan's Okinawa Trough)

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:

• credit protection (by seizing assets in anticipation of a default); preventive attachment

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

noun:

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

noun:

• (ritsuryo system) teacher responsible for training in astronomy, astrology, calendar-making, etc. - archaism

noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

noun:

• roofed corridor connecting two buildings (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造