noun:

• making from scratch (esp. in model-making and information systems); full scratch building - From English "full scratch"

noun:

• ninth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mars and south) ➜ 九星

noun:

• Scan Talk (brand name for a barcode system for recording and playing back brief sequences of sound)

noun:

• mixed acid (esp. of sulphuric acid and nitric acid)

noun:

• 007 (James Bond's code in the books and films); double-oh-seven

noun:

• vegetable-based food (incl. nuts, berries, etc., but excl. all meat and fish) - obscure term ➜ 生臭物

noun:

• hidden camera (for illegal and immoral purposes) ➜ 盗撮

noun:

• (arrogance and) insolence - four character idiom

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

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• 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:

• coilgun (gun in which a magnetic projectile is propelled using electromagnetic coils)

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)