expression / noun:

• slight superiority (in knowledge, experience, ability, etc.)
• being slightly older

noun:

• Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine) ➜ 薄葉細辛

interjection:

• (in calisthenics) return to your original position!
• er, rather - used in speech to correct oneself ➜ 元へ

noun:

• natural posture (esp. in judo); natural stance
• natural attitude; relaxed manner; calm manner

noun:

• night shark (Carcharhinus signatus, species of nocturnally active requiem shark found in the Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• subquest (in video game); sub quest - abbreviation ➜ サブクエスト

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail) ➜ ヒレナガハギ属【ヒレナガハギぞく】

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

• Anabantoidei (suborder of the order Perciformes known as labyrinth fish that are defined by having an accessory breathing organ for respiration in air)

noun:

• prefectural senior high school (in Hokkaido); public senior high school (in Hokkaido) ➜ 県立高等学校

noun / suffix:

• general affairs section (e.g. in a company); operations division

noun:

• (in China) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・平調
• first lunar month

expression / noun:

• Day of the Rat (esp. the first Day of the Rat in the New Year)
• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots - abbreviation ➜ 子の日の遊び
• pine shoot pulled out in such a manner ➜ 子の日の松

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

noun:

• letting horses out the barn to graze (in spring)

noun:

• take (e.g. in film-making)

noun:

• expert (in, at); skilled hand; man of experience

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun:

• correct practices (esp. in Jodo, the path to rebirth in paradise) - Buddhism term ➜ 助業・浄土宗・正定業

noun:

• selling something by the boxful (in a wooden masu box)

noun / ~する noun:

• looking on with folded arms (with one's hands in one's sleeves); remaining a passive onlooker - four character idiom

noun:

• greeting phrase (in letter, etc.); salutation

noun:

• high tension (as in electronics, etc.)
• excited; enthusiastic

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have one's feet reach the bottom (e.g. when standing in water)