noun:

• strong feelings of loyalty to one's old school; the old school tie - four character idiom

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

noun:

• any shark of genus Centrophorus (esp. the dwarf gulper shark, Centrophorus atromarginatus)

noun:

• Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)

noun:

• weekly ideas; weekly thoughts; ideas brought forth at the conclusion of a week

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

noun:

• credits roll (at the end of a show or movie); end credit roll - From English "endroll"

noun:

• Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)

noun:

• return of government (to Kyoto); making former capital (esp. Kyoto) the capital again

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be away from home; to be out of the house

noun:

• Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets (2013); Secret Information Protection Act

expression / noun:

• a blink of time; the time it takes to say "Ah!" [literal] ➜ あっと言う間に

noun:

• cause; factor
• hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions) - Buddhism term ➜ 縁【えん】
• the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya) ➜ 因明

noun:

• killing an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; blood offering
• killing violently; bloodbath; victimizing

noun:

• lucky-dip bag; grab bag; mystery package (with a variety of articles possibly worth more than the purchase price)

noun:

• all worldly phenomena; meritorious acts leading to enlightenment - Buddhism term
• (Jodo school) all practices other than recitation of the nembutsu prayer

noun:

• chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora); sea cradle
• Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)

noun:

• redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)

noun:

• "tsuchinoe" day that falls closest to the vernal or autumnal equinox (a day of religious significance for harvests) ➜ 戊

noun:

• field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations) - archaism

noun:

• nirmanakaya (response body, form taken by a buddha according to the capabilities of those who are to be saved) - Buddhism term ➜ 三身

noun:

• form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun / ~の noun:

• black tip - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• smalleye hammerhead (Sphyrna tudes, species of hammerhead shark common in the western Atlantic)