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

noun:

• three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi) ➜ 御三卿

noun:

• the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings) ➜ 庚申待

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
• four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)
• the four assemblies - in Tendai

noun:

• third of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and east) ➜ 九星

noun:

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

noun:

• (warning) flare (esp. used on roads and railways)

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) - abbreviation

noun:

• Budget Committee (of the Upper and Lower Houses of the Diet)
• budget committee

noun:

• all talk (and no action)