noun:

• Nivkh (ethnic minority group of Russia, living near the Amur river and on Sakhalin)

noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to sleep together (for a man and a woman); to make love

noun:

• flour made from parched rice or barley (can be mixed in hot water and drunk)

noun:

• Trimma grammistes (species of small goby found in Japan and Taiwan)

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Wang Yangming and his followers) ➜ 朱子学

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle down (and deal with something); to concentrate all one's energy (on something)
• to settle oneself (in a place); to settle down (somewhere); to settle in
• to take a solid stance; to lower one's center of gravity (centre)

noun:

• Great Interregnum (gap between Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rule of the Holy Roman Empire, approx. 1254-1273 CE)

noun:

• Three Mountains of Yamato (Mt. Miminashi, Mt. Kagu, and Mt. Unebi) ➜ 大和

noun:

• Golden Triangle (area near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos)

noun / ~する noun:

• studying two lines together (as a major and a minor)

noun:

• the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi) ➜ 四畿内

noun:

• silpasthanavidya (ancient Indian study of the arts, incl. mathematics and mechanics) ➜ 五明

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to catch (and tie up); to apprehend; to arrest

noun:

• two people riding in a palanquin together (esp. a man and a woman) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• female-to-male genderswap (in fan art and fan fiction) - slang ➜ 女体化

expression:

• please come (and visit us); please come (to our shop) ➜ いらっしゃってください・いらして

noun:

• room arranged for the summer (by removing screens and doors to improve air flow) ➜ 襖【ふすま】・障子

noun:

• Holy Alliance (of Russia, Austria and Prussia in 1815)

noun:

• Garuda or Garua (man-bird deity and 'vahana' of Hindu-Buddhist myth)

noun:

• leopon (offspring born of a male leopard and a female lion)

noun:

• part of the imperial palace where dancing girls were trained (Nara and Heian periods) - archaism

noun:

• Tochū tea (high in minerals and reputed to be beneficial for weight loss and in cases of high blood pressure) ➜ 杜仲

noun:

• slender catshark (Schroederichthys tenuis, found off Suriname and Brazil)

noun:

• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)