expression:

• crying over spilt milk; counting the age of one's dead child [literal] - proverb

expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom

expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

noun:

• Shenxian thought (ancient Chinese folk belief in the existence of mountain wizards)

noun:

• quiver (worn on the right hip; post-Nara period)

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• catharsis; purgation; evacuation; purging the bowels; diarrhea

noun / ~する noun:

• pouring out (water, etc.) ［しゃか］ - orig. meaning

noun:

• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Persicaria orientalis); prince's feather

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• off-the-job training

expression:

• rub of the green

noun:

• Monodontidae; cetacean family comprising the narwhal and white beluga whale

noun:

• prostitution (in the guise of a massage service) - From English "fashion health" ➜ ヘルス

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

noun:

• lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)

noun:

• man in charge of delivering letters and packages during the Edo period

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)

noun:

• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ブラックバックバタフライフィッシュ

noun:

• Thymallus; genus of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae

noun:

• Gymnocanthus (genus of northern demersal fish in the Cottidae family)

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• Cirrhoscyllium; genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae

noun:

• Parascyllium (genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae)