noun:

• three implements for worship (incense burner, flower vase and candle-stand) - Buddhism term ➜ 香炉・華瓶・燭台

noun:

• fruit of a cactus in genus Opuntia (incl. prickly pears and cholla); cactus pear

noun:

• program picture (i.e. film cheaply and quickly produced as a lesser attraction in a double bill); programme picture; B-movie

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant) ➜ 丸瓦・瓦当

noun:

• sitting position similar to seiza (but with both legs splayed out slightly and one's backside resting directly on the ground) ➜ 正座【せいざ】

noun:

• decorative ridge-end tile (traditionally bearing the face of a demon and resembling a gargoyle)
• hideous face - obscure term

noun:

• public awareness (e.g. publicity and education campaigns aimed at improving the health, environment, etc.)

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

noun:

• elegant speech (esp. the use of the prefixes "o-" and "go- "); refined language; polite language ➜ 尊敬語・丁寧語

noun:

• gandharva (heavenly musicians and protectors of Buddhism) - Buddhism term

noun:

• fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe) ➜ 本生り
• weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man

noun:

• property damage (not including ships, buildings, planes and documents) - Law term

noun:

• one's opinion on (life and) death

expression:

• a real man would (shut up and) ... - preceding a verb, etc. ➜ 漢【おとこ】

noun:

• the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

noun:

• auberge (French-style inn and restaurant) - From French

noun:

• dumplings offered to the moon (on the 15th day of the 8th month and the 13th day of the 9th month)

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

noun:

• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts) ➜ コケ植物

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

noun:

• Randall's pygmy goby (Trimma randalli, species in Palau and the Philippines)

noun:

• half tide (e.g. midway between spring and neap tides)

noun:

• Borneo shark (Carcharhinus borneensis, species of requiem shark found in Borneo and China)

noun:

• staying awake on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle (to prevent the three worms from reporting one's wrongdoings and shortening one's lifespan), while worshipping Sakra, the Blue-Faced Vajra, or Sarutahiko ➜ 三尸