noun:

• confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika) - obscure term

noun:

• field cap (used by Japanese troops in WW II)

noun:

• icefish (Salangidae spp., esp. the Japanese icefish, Salangichthys microdon); noodlefish; whitebait

noun / ~する noun:

• kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji)
• reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese

noun:

• Azuma-asobi (ancient Japanese dance suite that originated in eastern Japan) - archaism

noun:

• tree frog (esp. the Japanese tree frog, Hyla japonica)

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• (Japanese) Protection of Personal Liberty Law (1948)

noun:

• Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)

noun:

• lake shaped like the kanji "heart" character (traditional Japanese gardens)

noun:

• hachiya (variety of astringent Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

noun:

• abbreviated koyomi (Japanese traditional calendar); koyomi presented in a smaller, easy to use, format - abbreviation ➜ 略本暦

noun:

• CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) character unification

noun:

• (Japanese) Narcotics Control Law

noun:

• Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895) - obscure term ➜ 日清戦争

noun:

• miscellany (classification of Japanese poetry unrelated to the seasons or to love)

noun:

• bullhead shark (esp. the Japanese bullhead shark, Heterodontus japonicus)

noun:

• fuyu (variety of sweet Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)

noun / ~の noun:

• left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following

noun:

• se (Japanese unit of area equal to 30 tsubo, ~99.174 m.sq.) - obsolete term ➜ 畝【ほ】

noun:

• sho (Japanese free reed musical instrument) - obscure term ➜ 笙

noun:

• phonetic table (esp. that of Japanese) ➜ 五十音図

noun:

• Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae (rare Japanese subspecies of sockeye salmon)