noun:

• the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching) ➜ 四診

noun:

• Yoshin-ryu; martial art tradition founded in the Edo period

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless

noun:

• shots taken with camera in the same position - from 同一ポジション - abbreviation

noun:

• kurultai; quriltai; political and military council in the Mongol Empire - From Mongolian "khuruldai"

expression:

• anybody can look good with the right clothes; clothes make the man; fine feathers make fine birds; clothes on a packhorse driver [literal] - proverb

godan ~く verb:

• to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss
• to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

expression:

• be moderate with your mouth; sickness enters through the mouth, calamities come out of the mouth [literal] - proverb

noun:

• tactic of avoiding hitting the ball (e.g. to tire out the pitcher) - Baseball term - From English "waiting"
• waiting; holding back; refraining

noun:

• whitefin surgeonfish (Acanthurus albipectoralis, species of Western Pacific tang found on the Great Barrier Reef through the Coral Sea to Tonga)

noun:

• large flat wooden plank shaped like a fish, struck like a gong at temple to indicate time of day - Buddhism term

noun:

• coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt

counter:

• counter for sheets, pages, leaves, etc.
• counter for blocks of tofu; counter for servings in a restaurant
• counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc. ➜ 挺

noun:

• even number ➜ 半【はん】
• 109.09 m ➜ 町

noun:

• person in charge (of an area of work); person responsible; contact (person)

noun / ~の noun:

• very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• Hell Korea; Hell Joseon; satirical South Korean term criticizing the current socioeconomic state of the country

noun:

• window with a view of a Japanese mugwort thicket
• poor house; humble house; primitive house

pre-noun adjectival:

• of the time; at the time ➜ 時【とき】

noun:

• the sun, the moon and the stars; the heavenly bodies - four character idiom

noun:

• cercopithecoid (any Old World monkey of family Cercopithecidae, esp. the guenons of genus Cercopithecus)

noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

noun:

• parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)

noun:

• Lord (title of respect for nobility, etc.) - archaism - honorific language
• Sukune (third highest of the eight hereditary titles) ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• Australian swellshark (Cephaloscyllium laticeps, species of catshark which inhabits the continental shelf of southern Australia)