noun:

• greybearded pygmy goby (Trimma annosum, from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• candycane pygmy goby (Trimma cana, species from the Western Pacific)

expression:

• opportunity only knocks once; strike while the iron is hot - proverb

noun:

• Rhinochimaera africana (species of cartilaginous fish from the Southeast Atlantic)

noun:

• slender bambooshark (Chiloscyllium indicum, found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• brownbanded bambooshark (Chiloscyllium punctatum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• grey bambooshark (Chiloscyllium griseum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus, found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• hairstyle with buns on each side of the head

noun:

• chain catshark (Scyliorhinus retifer, species found in the Western Atlantic)

noun:

• deep-water catshark (Apristurus profundorum, species found in the Atlantic)

noun:

• whitenose shark (Nasolamia velox, species found in the eastern Pacific)

expression / adjective:

• unthinkable; count for nothing; not matter; out of the question

noun:

• doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus, species of tang from the Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• position at the imperial court in ancient China; grand secretariat ➜ 大学士

noun:

• type of smelling salts sold in the late Edo period - archaism

noun:

• bound almanac; calendar in the form of a book ➜ 柱暦

noun:

• government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period) ➜ 仏所

noun:

• mole under the eye (supposedly due to having cried)

noun:

• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

noun:

• Yamato (province) ➜ 大和
• Japan ➜ 日本
• the art of classical Japanese poetry - abbreviation ➜ 敷島の道

noun:

• large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods

noun:

• early phase of the shoin-zukuri residential architecture style ➜ 書院造

noun:

• type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period) ➜ 歌垣

noun:

• banquet and concert pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿