noun:

• Shizuoka-cha; prized Japanese green tea cultivated in Shizuoka Prefecture

noun:

• soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles ➜ 蕎麦

noun:

• square bracket; Japanese-style quotation marks

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa)

noun:

• Itayose method; method of trading employed on Japanese exchanges - often 板寄せ方式

noun:

• linden arrowwood (Viburnum dilatatum); Japanese bush cranberry

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

noun:

• one's native language; Japanese

noun:

• Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki

noun:

• auxiliary inflecting word; in Japanese, auxiliary verbs and adjectives - Linguistics term

noun:

• letter dropped in the road; Japanese insect

noun:

• loquat (Eriobotrya japonica); Japanese medlar - shaped like a biwa

noun:

• people living in the country; people living inland; Japanese in Japan proper; people living on Honshu

noun:

• polite style; polite Japanese ➜ 普通体

noun:

• Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum); Japanese littleneck clam

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• Russia and Japan; Russian-Japanese

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

noun:

• Kutani ware; style of Japanese porcelain

noun:

• komejirushi; Japanese punctuation mark similar in usage to an asterisk

noun:

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

noun:

• Japan and Russia; Japanese-Russian

noun:

• traditional love hotel; traditional Japanese inn specially for couples ➜ 連れ込み宿