天

silk velvet

very short-lived regime; very brief reign; (Napoleon's post-Elba) Hundred Days

Etenraku (Japanese court music composition)

radio astronomy observatory

circumzenithal arc; cicumzenith arc

Idiomatic expression

to have a narrow view of things; to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle

white-spotted citrus longhorned beetle (Anoplophora malasiaca)

person who brags about (or prides themselves on) their fishing skill

Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis); harlequin ladybird; Halloween beetle

hawk moth (any moth of family Sphingidae); hawkmoth; sphinx moth

short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis)

Buddhism

Chandra (Hindu moon god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism)

Archaic

moon

falling headlong; plummeting; sudden crash

fly agaric (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita muscaria)

another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

Proverb

sincerity can move heaven

chemical balance

eeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe

Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

lattice ceiling

tengujo (thin washi); tengucho

eave

keiskei fetterbush (Leucothoe keiskei); doghobble; dog hobble

Proverb

there's no flying from fate; you can't fight fate