noun:

• traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

noun:

• Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis

noun:

• Pleioblastus chino (species of bamboo grass)

noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan) ➜ 篠竹【すずたけ】

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan) - archaism ➜ 篠竹【すずたけ】
• shoots of this plant

noun:

• mat (made of pieces of split bamboo or reeds tied together)

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand all around (e.g. bamboo, pines, pampas grass)

noun:

• wide-mouthed ceramic vessel having a small hole in its spherical base (into which bamboo was probably inserted to pour liquids)
• teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids ➜ 半挿【はんぞう】

noun:

• the three friends of winter (pine, bamboo and plum)

noun:

• shaft of an arrow (usu. made of thin bamboo)
• cornetfish - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• cap cloud (cloud shaped like an Asian bamboo hat that forms at the peak of a tall mountain)

noun:

• sedge-woven (bamboo) hat

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• noh flute (transverse bamboo flute with seven holes; approx. 39 cm long)

noun:

• zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)

noun:

• Bambusa multiplex var. elegans (variety of hedge bamboo) ➜ 蓬莱竹

noun:

• Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)

noun:

• dongxiao (Chinese bamboo flute similar to a shakuhachi)

noun:

• paixiao (ancient Chinese bamboo panpipes)

noun:

• space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• xiao (vertical Chinese bamboo flute) ➜ 洞簫・排簫

noun / ~する noun:

• divination (using bamboo divination sticks) ➜ 筮竹