noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• referee officiating at bouts of rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• winter greeting card; inquiring after someone's health in the cold season - four character idiom

noun:

• extended-hours childcare (in day-care centers for parents working into the night) - four character idiom

noun:

• safety (well-being) of one's family; peace and prosperity in the household

noun:

• 33 sacred places in the Kanto Region (which was previously known as Bandou) ➜ 三十三所

noun:

• spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)

noun:

• (in Japan) 2nd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp) ➜ 十二律・大呂

noun:

• three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season ➜ 暑中見舞い

noun:

• group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration)

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り

noun:

• Portuguese card game popular in Japan during the late 16th century ➜ ウンスンカルタ

adjectival noun:

• neglectful (i.e. in the treatment of one's guests)

adjectival noun:

• neglectful (i.e. in the treatment of one's guests) - polite language

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• 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】