noun:

• Tillandsia (genus of flowering plants in the Bromeliaceae family)

noun / ~する noun:

• public announcement (in a department store, etc.)

expression:

• The time has come (for, to, when...); Now is the time - four character idiom

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

noun:

• Iwashimizu Festival (Sept. 15 festival held at Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto)

noun:

• sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)

noun:

• sunbird (any bird in the family Nectariniidae)

noun:

• (in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt

noun / ~する noun:

• vibration control (in earthquake-resistant construction)

~の noun / noun:

• (for) self-defense; (for) self-protection

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan)
• to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable

noun:

• to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)

adjectival noun / adverb:

• rummaging (in a drawer) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• small hawk or falcon (used for hunting) - abbreviation ➜ 大鷹
• falconry (using small hawks or falcons) ➜ 小鷹狩

noun:

• redface dwarfgoby (Trimma benjamini, species found in the Western Pacific); ring-eye pygmy-goby

noun:

• broadfin sawtail catshark (Galeus nipponensis, found in China, Japan, and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge)

noun / ~の noun:

• crisis (in an illness)

noun:

• carpenter's square (for checking angles)
• common shaku (unit of distance; approx. 30.3 cm)

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)

noun:

• (in China) 7th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G sharp) ➜ 十二律・鳧鐘
• fifth lunar month

noun:

• wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting) ➜ 鬼瓦

noun / ~する noun:

• brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)

noun:

• minor (in university or college courses); sub-major ➜ 専攻

noun:

• poor move (in chess, shogi, etc.)

noun:

• physicians' pavilion (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

noun:

• nose ring (for cattle)