scooping loaches; catching loach in a net; loach-catching dance
white charcoal; charcoal used for tea ceremony
unexamined; untested; unscreened
vanishing behind the clouds (e.g. of the moon); vanishing; suddenly disappearing; going into hiding
eight-legged essay (classical Chinese style of essay writing)
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
citizen's holiday; by law, any weekday that falls between two other national holidays (e.g. between 1985 and 2006 May 4, now Greenery Day)
familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old stand-by
tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
firm; persevering; flexible and hard to break
organic farming; organic cultivation; farming without pesticides
fishing, esp. using a net or trap; catching fish
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape; fresh sashimi
man-eating shark (esp. great white shark)
dangerous; unsatisfactory; boring
rough skin (like that of a shark)
puffing; chugging; steaming; feeling hot
anal fistula; bleeding hemorrhoids
Tokugawa Yoshimune (shogun 1716-1745 and 1751; 1684.11.27-1751.7.12),
jewel beetle (esp. Chrysochroa fulgidissima); buprestid
celebration of complete recovery from illness
multipurpose knife; Swiss Army knife
seirogan; beechwood extract popular as a herbal treatment for diarrhoea (diarrhea), etc.
Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)
Aedes (genus of mosquitoes); striped mosquito
proud; triumphant; boastful