noun:

• concerning Taiwan; concerning the Republic of China

noun:

• udumbara (mythical Indian plant often identified with the cluster fig, Ficus glomerata)
• something very rare (from the legend that it flowers once in 3000 years)
• Japanese fiber banana flower ➜ 芭蕉
• green lacewing eggs ➜ 草蜉蝣

noun:

• special guests

noun:

• travertine

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• luxury cruise ship; luxury liner

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to seek results, not show; to discard the flower for the fruit [literal] - idiom

noun:

• flowers and fruit; blossom and fruit
• name and reality ［はなみ］
• form and content; appearance and substance ［かじつ］ - esp. in poetry

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• hot-springs mineral deposits (resembling flowers); flowers of sulphur; geyserite ➜ 湯の花【ゆのはな】

noun:

• ceramics with a blue pattern on a white background

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to blossom; to flower; to bloom

noun:

• volcanic sublimate

noun:

• Chinese dunce cap (species of succulent plant, Orostachys iwarenge)

noun:

• Jinhua ham (special Chinese ham)

noun:

• Chinese noodles

noun:

• hot-springs mineral deposits (resembling flowers); flowers of sulphur; geyserite

noun:

• dew that trickles down from a flower - poetical term

noun:

• flowers of sulfur; flowers of sulphur

noun:

• heat of sublimation

noun:

• Japanese azalea (Rhododendron japonicum); renge azalea