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)

noun:

• Desert monitor (Varanus griseus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in North Africa and western Asia)

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

noun:

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

expression:

• being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one) - four character idiom
• know-it-all manner

expression / noun:

• point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current) ➜ 潮目
• attractive glance - archaism

noun:

• three-color printing (red and yellow and blue); three-colour printing

noun:

• unsettled (fine and cloudy) weather

~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• soft (and fluffy) (e.g. bed, bread, baked potato) - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• absent-mindedly - onomatopoeia