noun:

• Arcturus (star in the constellation Boötes); Alpha Bootis - Astronomy term

noun:

• round-necked robe worn by members of nobility and the imperial court

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits) - obscure term ➜ 鶺鴒
• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ 時鳥

noun:

• 33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of speech (with sentences ending in "da") ➜ である体

noun:

• treehopper (any insect of family Membracidae, esp. the species Orthobelus flavipes)

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

• comb jellies (jellyfish-like animals of the phylum Ctenophora) ➜ 有櫛動物

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• the five commissioners (administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi) ➜ 五大老

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• Treaty of San Stefano (ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1878) ➜ 露土戦争

noun:

• official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

noun:

• Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・房【ぼう】
• satellite ［添い星・添星］ - Astronomy term ➜ 衛星

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph

noun:

• Qing-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 19th century) ➜ 清【しん】

noun:

• Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century) ➜ 明【みん】

noun:

• statutory rape; sexual activity with a minor under the age of consent - Law term

noun:

• houses of the Diet being controlled by different parties; twisted parliament [literal]