noun:

• Trimma caudipunctatum (species of goby found in Japan and Palau)

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow) ➜ 藍摺

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings)

interjection:

• va-va-vroom (esp. fast cars or bikes, sexy women or men); va-voom; vrrrm - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶるん
• sound of animal shaking its fur to dry off after getting wet (esp. dogs) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• nursing care level (between 1 and 5 based on assessment of care requirements) ➜ 要介護

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a family (e.g. wife or husband and children); to raise a family ➜ 所帯を持つ

noun:

• English-Japanese (usu. for translation and dictionaries) ➜ 日英

noun:

• problems caused by the elderly (esp. gerontocracy, and elderly people's control over the young)

noun:

• tattoo (esp. a tattoo of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword); person with a tattoo ➜ 倶利迦羅

noun:

• savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)

noun:

• Marshallian k (ratio of monetary base and nominal GNP)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed) - obscure term ➜ 床を上げる

noun:

• bib (esp. for infants and statues)

noun:

• simple deer-hunting blind (horizontal branches and brushwood) - archaism ➜ 鹿木

noun:

• Eviota lacrimae (species of pygmy goby found in Japan and Tonga)

noun:

• understanding (of people's circumstances and feelings); perceptiveness; sympathy; wisdom

noun:

• American (and-or Canadian) wood

noun:

• Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945) ➜ 十五年戦争・太平洋戦争

noun:

• broadcast writer (TV and radio)

noun:

• dobra (monetary unit of Sao Tome and Principe)

noun:

• Asian countries with strong anti-Japanese sentiment (i.e. China, South Korea, and North Korea) - colloquialism

noun:

• the four classical chemical elements (fire, earth, air and water)