noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• literature
• the arts; art and literature; liberal arts

noun:

• wind and waves
• waves stirred by the wind ➜ 風波

expression / noun:

• modern times; the modern age; this day and age

noun:

• start; beginning; build up
• how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game - Baseball term

noun:

• countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel

noun:

• temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs) - Shintō term

noun:

• turban shell (any mollusc of the family Turbinidae, esp. the horned turban, Turbo cornutus)

noun:

• the hundredth year
• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
• rare chance; unusually good fortune

noun / ~する noun:

• worldly wise; sophisticated; street smart; knowledge of the world (acquired in the school of hard knocks); toughness

noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• (in China) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp) ➜ 十二律・上無
• tenth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• (in China) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律
• ninth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断前部

noun:

• orphan (one or more lines separated from the rest of the following passage by page or paragraph break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断後部

noun:

• Nasolamia (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose only member is the whitenose shark)

noun:

• Prionace (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the blue shark)

noun:

• Scoliodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the spadenose shark)

noun:

• Eusphyra; genus of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae whose sole member is the winghead shark

noun:

• Zanclus (sole genus of the family Zanclidae containing the moorish idol as its sole extant species)

noun:

• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism

expression:

• being in doubt and unable to decide; hesitation and indecision - four character idiom

noun:

• black and yellow silk (offered to gods); heaven and earth - obscure term

expression:

• better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the Buddha you don't [literal] - proverb

expression:

• better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the god you don't [literal] - proverb ➜ 知らぬ仏より馴染みの鬼