noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) - obscure term ➜ 宋学

noun:

• the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness) - Buddhism term

noun:

• smooth-hound (Mustelus mustelus, houndshark found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)

noun:

• four large domesticated fishes (black carp, grass carp, bighead carp, and silver carp)

noun:

• Merostomata (group comprising the sea scorpions and the horseshoe crabs)

noun:

• broadfin sawtail catshark (Galeus nipponensis, found in China, Japan, and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge)

noun:

• three wise monkeys (who "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil") ➜ 見猿・言わ猿・聞か猿

noun:

• Semite (speaker of a semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)

noun:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 六体

noun:

• spoon race (i.e. egg and spoon race)

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

noun:

• the (civil engineering and) construction industry

noun:

• body of (genital) erectile tissue (incl. corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum)

noun:

• Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun:

• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

noun:

• text decoration (e.g. character and font effects, underline, etc.)

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

• three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

expression:

• Come away home! (expression suggesting quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown) - archaism ➜ 帰去来

noun:

• two-storied pagoda (with a square base, pent roof and a round top) ➜ 裳階