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allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ancient Japanese law)

reflow soldering

Ikeda Elementary School massacre (June 8, 2001)

Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province; sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords; in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)

Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)

pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure

bowmouth guitarfish (Rhina ancylostoma); mud skate; shark ray

Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); F-scale

black-skinned variety of watermelon