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

noun:

• sixth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and north-west) ➜ 九星

noun:

• short coat for noblewomen (Nara and Heian period)

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• umbrella polypore sclerotium (used as a diuretic, antipyretic, and antitussive in traditional Chinese medicine) ➜ 猪苓舞茸

noun:

• Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)

noun:

• salamander shark (Parmaturus pilosus, found in China and Japan)

noun:

• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group); JPG - IT term

noun:

• (from heart and utopia) welfare institutions, etc.

noun:

• rapping sound (and other sounds when associated with poltergeists)