noun:

• Japan and Germany; Japanese-German

noun:

• Ubume; birthing woman ghost in Japanese folklore
• woman in late pregnancy; woman on the point of giving birth ［産女・孕女］ - obscure term

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

noun:

• chinaberry; Japanese bead tree (Melia azedarach) - archaism ➜ 栴檀【せんだん】
• light purple outside, green inside; purple outside, light purple inside; type of garment layering color scheme, worn in April and May

noun:

• wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice ➜ 蝋梅

noun:

• Oriental odd-tooth snake (Dinodon orientale); Japanese odd-tooth snake

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• hatchet; traditional Japanese edged tool with short handle and wide blade

noun:

• city pop; Japanese music genre popular in the 1980's

noun:

• man'yōgana; early Japanese syllabary composed of Chinese characters used phonetically

noun:

• monarch birch (Betula maximowicziana); Japanese birch

expression:

• genius shows from childhood; the Japanese bead tree is fragrant from when a sprout [literal] - proverb

noun:

• yodan verb conjugation; verb conjugation of classical Japanese - Linguistics term ➜ 五段活用

noun:

• ichimatsu doll; traditional Japanese doll with a torso made of hardened sawdust

noun:

• Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)

noun:

• red-crowned crane; Japanese crane (Grus japonensis)

noun:

• contempt for Japan; anti-Japanese sentiment

noun:

• fringed iris (Iris japonica); Japanese iris ➜ 姫著莪

noun:

• hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa); Japanese cypress

noun:

• Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum); Japanese bunching onion ➜ 葱

noun:

• the island country of Japan; the Japanese Isles - four character idiom

noun:

• Mahonia japonica; Japanese mahonia

noun:

• Sakai Houitsu school; school of Japanese painting

noun:

• sake; Japanese rice wine - colloquialism ➜ 日本酒【にほんしゅ】

noun:

• geta; Japanese wooden clogs - from からころ - children's language ➜ からころ