noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• catharsis; purgation; evacuation; purging the bowels; diarrhea

noun / ~する noun:

• pouring out (water, etc.) ［しゃか］ - orig. meaning

noun:

• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Persicaria orientalis); prince's feather

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• off-the-job training

expression:

• rub of the green

noun:

• Monodontidae; cetacean family comprising the narwhal and white beluga whale

noun:

• prostitution (in the guise of a massage service) - From English "fashion health" ➜ ヘルス

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

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)