noun:

• solar-evaporation process (in salt making)

noun:

• sound pressure level (usu. measured in decibel); SPL

noun:

• earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Jomon-period Japan) - archaism ➜ 耳当

noun:

• washed-out colour (in photography) (color)

noun:

• public recitation right (e.g. reciting a poem in a bookstore)

noun:

• end of outdoor baths (in autumn)

noun:

• hero package (commercial in which the product is the hero of the segment)

noun:

• magic eye (in radio receivers, etc.)

noun:

• geminate consonant (small "tsu" in Japanese) - Linguistics term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to arrange (one's) shoes (e.g. in a genkan) ➜ 玄関【げんかん】

noun:

• yellow card (e.g. in soccer)

noun:

• four types of mandala (in Shingon) - Buddhism term ➜ 大曼荼羅【だいまんだら】・三昧耶曼荼羅【さんまやまんだら】・法曼荼羅【ほうまんだら】・羯磨曼荼羅【かつままんだら】

noun:

• rank and social status (e.g. in the imperial family)

noun:

• knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; fetters
• arrest
• rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)

noun:

• individual (in philosophy)

noun / ~する noun:

• makeup (in printing); justifying
• plate-making (printing) - obsolete term ➜ 製版

noun:

• dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis, species of hound shark found in the Western Atlantic)

noun:

• Rhizoprionodon (genus of sharpnose sharks in the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm, species of tang endemic to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the western Indian Ocean)

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

godan ~む verb:

• to bury (e.g. in ash, snow, earth); to cover

noun:

• beefeater (brand of gin, warden in the Tower of London)

noun:

• Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)

noun:

• First Nations (i.e. non-Inuit or Metis aboriginal peoples in Canada)

noun:

• meridian flow (in traditional Chinese medicine)