noun:

• pinnipeds (seals and walruses)

noun:

• combined race (skiing event with cross country and ski jumping)

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記

noun:

• secretly slitting one's belly (and only eventually revealing one's mortal wound) (in kabuki, bunraku, etc.)

noun:

• single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• moving slowly (and dull-wittedly) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) - obscure term ➜ 宋学

noun:

• the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness) - Buddhism term

noun:

• smooth-hound (Mustelus mustelus, houndshark found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)

noun:

• four large domesticated fishes (black carp, grass carp, bighead carp, and silver carp)

noun:

• Merostomata (group comprising the sea scorpions and the horseshoe crabs)

noun:

• broadfin sawtail catshark (Galeus nipponensis, found in China, Japan, and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge)

noun:

• three wise monkeys (who "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil") ➜ 見猿・言わ猿・聞か猿

noun:

• Semite (speaker of a semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)

noun:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 六体

noun:

• spoon race (i.e. egg and spoon race)

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

noun:

• the (civil engineering and) construction industry

noun:

• body of (genital) erectile tissue (incl. corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum)

noun:

• Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period