noun:

• lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

noun:

• standard (for weights and measures)

noun:

• paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)

noun:

• road-rail vehicle (vehicle which can travel both on railroad tracks and normal roads)

noun:

• events of May 1968 (strikes, protests and riots in France)

noun:

• farrier (person who fits foot irons on horses and cows); hoof (care) specialist

noun:

• labyrinth spinefoot (Siganus labyrinthodes, species of Western Central Pacific rabbitfish known from Indonesia and thought more widespread)

noun:

• qieyun (ancient Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme, displaying characters' meanings and representing their pronunciation with fanqie)

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees) - obscure term ➜ 四衆

noun:

• fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) character unification

noun:

• the five festivals (Jan 7th, March 3rd, May 5th, July 7th and Sep 9th)

noun:

• Deer-Antler-Cutting Ceremony (held in Nara between late October and early November)

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

noun:

• Perciformes (order of perch and perch-like fish) ➜ 鱸

noun:

• bathtub (esp. wooden and bucket-shaped)
• small bucket used while bathing

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to blend (e.g. truth and lies); to mix together (e.g. kanji and kana)

noun:

• correspondence notebook (e.g. between teacher and parents); contact notebook; communication notebook

noun:

• Donaldson trout (hybrid of steelhead, cutthroat, and rainbow trout) - From English "trout salmon"

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun:

• en-tout-cas (track or tennis court surface made of clay and crushed brick) - From French

noun:

• Great Northern War (Sweden vs. Russia, Poland, Denmark, Saxony and Hanover: 1700-1721)

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "shiki" and predicative form ending in "shi")

noun:

• flathead catshark (Apristurus macrorhynchus, species from Japan and Taiwan)

noun:

• Chlamydoselachus (genus containing only the frilled shark and the Southern African frilled shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae)