noun:

• lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)

noun:

• man in charge of delivering letters and packages during the Edo period

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)

noun:

• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ブラックバックバタフライフィッシュ

noun:

• Thymallus; genus of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae

noun:

• Gymnocanthus (genus of northern demersal fish in the Cottidae family)

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• Cirrhoscyllium; genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae

noun:

• Parascyllium (genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae)

noun:

• blacktip sawtail catshark (Galeus sauteri, found in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines)

noun:

• Hemitriakis complicofasciata (species of houndshark found in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan)

noun:

• smalleye smooth-hound (Mustelus higmani, species of houndshark from the western Atlantic)

noun:

• spotless smooth-hound (Mustelus griseus, species of houndshark from the northwest Pacific)

noun:

• sapphire damsel (Pomacentrus pavo, species of marine damselfish from the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Varanus; genus of carnivorous monitor lizards in the family Varanidae

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

noun:

• type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process - abbreviation ➜ 友禅染

noun:

• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

noun:

• split election (where two or more candidates from the same party stand)

noun:

• stick used to drive off birds (during the New Year's procession) - archaism ➜ 鳥追