noun:

• Merostomata (group comprising the sea scorpions and the horseshoe crabs)

noun:

• Erinaceomorpha; order comprising the hedgehogs and the moonrats

noun:

• Giraffidae; family containing the giraffe and the okapi

noun:

• mushroom

expression:

• the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 [literal]

noun:

• ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the Introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)

noun:

• survivability; military term for the ability to withstand an attack and continue to function

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the rules; to violate the rules; to infringe the rules

noun / ~する noun:

• going to the Philippines; moving to the Philippines; migration to the Philippines

expression:

• teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; lecturing to the Buddha [literal]

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut; to have a heart-to-heart talk

expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light of day; to be revealed (to the world); to be realized

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pave the way; to put in motion; to put on the road (to)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one
• to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor - orig. meaning

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument
• someone's ability to play the shamisen

noun:

• door (esp. Japanese-style) ［戸］ ➜ 扉
• shutter; window shutter
• entrance (to a home) - archaism
• narrows - archaism

noun:

• summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month) - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• off-the-record

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to wake up; to rouse out of bed
• to knock on the door and wake someone

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持する

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to speak as though something were actually the case; to smooth over; to give the impression that; to make it sound that

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be brief and to the point; to be succinct