noun:

• Chinese "Tail" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】

suffix / counter:

• counter for fish, shrimp, etc.

noun:

• Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Pleiades; Seven Sisters ➜ 昴

noun:

• three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season ➜ 暑中見舞い

noun:

• group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration)

noun:

• Law for the Protection of Personal Information Retained by Independent Administrative Institutions (2003)

noun:

• Kobo Daishi is always with me (written on the hats of Shikoku pilgrims) ➜ 四国遍路

expression:

• better safe than sorry; one should err on the side of caution - proverb

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り

noun:

• Portuguese card game popular in Japan during the late 16th century ➜ ウンスンカルタ

adjectival noun:

• neglectful (i.e. in the treatment of one's guests)

adjectival noun:

• neglectful (i.e. in the treatment of one's guests) - polite language

noun:

• allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• receiving agent services; over the counter payment accepted through convenience stores

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to not be worthy of the reputation (e.g. restaurant, Diet member, etc.)

expression / noun:

• seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season

godan ~る verb:

• to have your party wiped out (in the RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne) - slang

noun:

• way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

noun:

• type of conical hat that covers the whole head (used by Komuso monks) ➜ 笠・虚無僧

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to exit - slang ➜ 入り待ち

noun:

• whitespotted bambooshark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum); white-spotted catshark (species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• striated surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus striatus, species of bristletooth tang native to the Indo- Pacific)

noun:

• twospot surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus binotatus, species of bristletooth tang native to the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Heterodontus (sole genus of living bullhead sharks in the family Heterodontidae)