noun:

• sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)

noun:

• flag with a red circle on a white background
• the Japanese flag ➜ 日章旗

noun:

• squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae)
• Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis) ➜ 日本栗鼠

noun:

• Yellow Cab - trademark
• Japanese woman who readily sleeps with foreign men (sometimes a stereotype of all Japanese women) - slang

noun:

• rabbit hutch
• small Japanese houses; cramped Japanese housing - used in 1979 EC report

noun:

• Artemisia montana
• Japanese mugwort ➜ 蓬

noun:

• dried squid; dried cuttlefish
• Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus) ➜ 鯣烏賊

noun:

• young of sardines; whitebait
• fry of the Japanese anchovy, eel, etc. ➜ 片口鰯・真鰯・鰻

noun:

• Chinese yam (variety of Dioscorea opposita)
• Japanese yam (variety of Dioscorea japonica)

noun:

• quail
• Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

noun:

• main course (of a formal meal)
• extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs) - abbreviation ➜ 本膳料理

noun:

• mortarboard; trencher
• (square) academic cap formerly worn by Japanese university students

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

noun:

• Zen (Buddhism) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 禅宗
• confusing style of middle-age Japanese poetry - derogatory term ➜ 達磨歌

noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

noun:

• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta)
• Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica)

noun:

• lipstick brush
• variety of Japanese apricot ➜ 梅【うめ】

noun:

• simple meal eaten before tea is served ➜ 茶懐石
• sophisticated traditional Japanese cuisine brought in courses ➜ 懐石料理

noun:

• Western language
• Japanese word of Western origin

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:

• plectrum; pick - esp. 撥
• drumstick for Japanese drums (e.g. taiko) - esp. 枹,桴

noun:

• multi-millionaire; extremely rich person
• Japanese card game ➜ 大貧民

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to redeem; to take out of pawn
• to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage (by paying off her debt to her employer) ➜ 身請け

noun:

• mint (e.g. peppermint, spearmint, etc.)
• Japanese peppermint (Mentha arvensis var. piperascens)

noun:

• dropping; losing - abbreviation
• missing item; something one forgot to write down
• trap
• wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed
• conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 落とし掛け