noun:

• people's history (written for the king of China; usu. written as a novel) ➜ 稗官

noun:

• sea pen (any coelenterate of the family Pennatulidae or related families); sea feather

noun:

• football fish (any fish of family Himantolophidae, esp. the Atlantic footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus)

noun:

• convict surgeonfish (Acanthurus triostegus, species of the Indo-Pacific); convict tang; manini ➜ コンヴィクトサージャンフィッシュ

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun:

• dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis, species of hound shark found in the Western Atlantic)

noun:

• hardnose shark (Carcharhinus macloti, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• graceful shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, species of requiem shark found in the tropical Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• spadenose shark (Scoliodon laticaudus, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• record of information about a Buddhist statue (usu. an inconspicuous inscription on the statue)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be born (of a baby); to come into the world

noun:

• one shoulder exposed (e.g. because one sleeve of the kimono is undone) - obscure term

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

noun:

• great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran, the largest species of hammerhead shark)

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage
• small garden gate ➜ 小門

expression:

• a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

noun:

• healing crisis; cleansing reaction; reaction during the elimination of toxins after antibiotic, etc. treatment

noun:

• Brahman; Brahma; ultimate reality of the universe (in Hinduism)
• Brahma; Hindu creator god
• Sanskrit - abbreviation ➜ 梵語

noun:

• dust, etc. that gathers in the bottoms of sleeves (esp. in Japanese traditional clothing)

noun:

• rice paddy with a thick layer of mud at the bottom; muddy rice field

noun / ~する noun:

• recovering the remains of soldiers (e.g. Japanese soldiers who died abroad during WWII)

expression / adjective:

• (after the ren'yōkei form of a verb) indicates concession or compromise ➜ てもいい
• indicates permission ➜ てもいい

noun:

• anomaly; angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun - Astronomy term

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house