noun:

• informal summer clothes for men (short jacket and trousers) ➜ 甚兵衛

noun:

• sound-producing organ (esp. of land-dwelling vertebrates and insects)

noun:

• distal pronoun (indicating distance from both speaker and listener, i.e. are, asoko, achira) - Linguistics term

noun:

• water sports (esp. swimming and diving); swimming competition

noun:

• three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi) ➜ 三卿

adverb:

• what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo)
• what article? (in a law)
• how can?; cannot possibly; there is no way - the 条 in 何条 is an ateji - archaism

noun:

• second of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and southwest) ➜ 九星

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• (young) man adhering to a masculine version of gyaru fashion (usually marked by hair dyed brown or blond, gaudy clothes and accessories) ➜ ギャル

noun:

• growth hormone (esp. somatotropin in animals and auxins in plants)

noun:

• sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

noun:

• Settsu (former province covering parts of modern Osaka and Hyogo) ➜ 五畿内【ごきない】

noun:

• Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869)

noun:

• piroshki (Russian pierogi; meat and eggs, etc. baked in bread) - From Russian "pirozhki"

noun:

• silvertip shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus, a requiem shark found throughout the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans)

noun:

• sleet (mixture of snow and rain)
• shaved ice topped with honey

noun:

• dazaifu (under the ritsuryo system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• yachtel (combination of yacht and hotel)

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• harmful fish (e.g. non-native and prolific, etc.)

noun:

• informal summer clothes for men (short jacket and trousers) ➜ 甚平

noun:

• Chūgoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures)

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term