noun:

• Oriental paper bush (Edgeworthia chrysantha); mitsumata

noun:

• three non-rain light cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• the three types of gagaku drums - obscure term
• third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am) - archaism

noun:

• broad daylight

noun:

• three-fold; three times

noun:

• three mental disturbances - Buddhism term

noun:

• education of the head and hand and heart

noun:

• trident vajra - Buddhism term ➜ 金剛杵

noun:

• Korea - obsolete term

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道【さんあくどう】
• three evils (prostitution, drugs and venereal diseases) ［さんあく］

noun:

• three noble families (Kan'in, Kazan'in, and Nakanoin or Koga)
• three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito) ➜ 御三家

noun:

• three boxes; three box-shaped things; three containers

noun:

• three countries
• Japan, China & India; Japan, Korea & China; all the world
• Three Kingdoms (in China, 220-280) ➜ 魏【ぎ】・蜀【しょく】・呉【ご】
• Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE - 668 CE) ➜ 新羅【しらぎ】・百済【くだら】・高句麗【こうくり】

noun:

• three banishment punishments (of different severity) (under ritsuryo system) ➜ 遠流・中流・近流

noun:

• any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ
• Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha
• Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius
• Yao, Shun and Yu
• Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius

prefix:

• the big three ... ➜ 三大疾病

noun:

• sampan

noun:

• three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi) ➜ 御三卿

noun:

• the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings) ➜ 庚申待

noun:

• third of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• three-stringed guitar

noun:

• three summer months

noun:

• third; no. three

noun:

• three and eight
• Arisaka Type 38 rifle - abbreviation ➜ 三八式歩兵銃

adjectival noun:

• third grade; third class; tertiary