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• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• city pop; Japanese music genre popular in the 1980's

noun:

• horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad

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• first tone in old Chinese phonetics; level tone
• (of a Japanese accent) having a low, flat tone

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• catalpa bow; spirit bow; bow used to summon spirits, made of Japanese cherry birch, catalpa, or other wood - Shintō term

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• Potsdam Orders (commands made after the Japanese surrender based on the demands of the Potsdam Declaration) ➜ ポツダム宣言

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• former residence status in Japan for foreign students in Japanese language schools and vocational schools (abolished in 2010)

noun:

• white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum

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• sika deer (Cervus nippon); sika; spotted deer; Japanese deer

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• New Party Daichi; New Party Big Earth (Japanese political party)

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• famous sword; sword blade by Masamune
• sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844) - colloquialism

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perversity; perverse person; contrary person; contrarian

noun:

• antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore
• demon under the feet of temple guardian statues

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• rice gruel with diced sweet potatoes
• gruel with ivy broth and finely minced Japanese yam served at large Imperial banquets

noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

noun:

• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge ➜ 妻入り

noun:

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

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• whirligig beetle (any insect of family Gyrinidae, esp. the Japanese whirligig beetle, Gyrinus japonicus)
• pond skater; water strider ➜ 水馬【あめんぼ】

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• fish of the genus Rhinogobius ➜ ヨシノボリ
• dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus) ➜ チチブ
• common freshwater goby (Gymnogobius urotaenia) ➜ ウキゴリ
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (fish, Cottus pollux) ➜ 鰍

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

noun:

• otter (Lutra lutra)
• Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

noun:

• tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica)
• blister beetle; oil beetle - colloquialism ➜ 土斑猫

noun:

• the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace

noun:

• fan lobster (Ibacus spp., esp. the Japanese fan lobster, Ibacus ciliatus); sand crayfish

noun:

• big-footed myotis (Myotis macrodactylus); eastern long-fingered bat; Japanese large-footed bat