noun:

• wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice ➜ 蝋梅

noun:

• cuckoo, Japanese bush warbler & wagtail - archaism
• chicken, goose & pheasant - Food term

noun:

• Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis (Japanese fossil species of crocodilian)

noun:

• Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum)

noun:

• Sino-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1896)

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Eastern Tottori prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• K-1 (Japanese kick-boxing promotion)

noun:

• ancient Japanese coinage first minted in 760 CE

noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• rough geta (e.g. made of Japanese cedar)

noun:

• Japanese copperhead (Gloydius blomhoffii); mamushi pit-viper ➜ 蝮

noun:

• Lepus brachyurus lyoni (subspecies of Japanese hare)

noun:

• Lepus brachyurus lyoni (subspecies of Japanese hare) ➜ 東北野兎

noun:

• Japanese muffin containing bean jam, served hot ➜ 今川焼き

noun:

• Chinese traitor (esp. a collaborator with the Japanese)

noun:

• mixed writing of literary Japanese and Chinese

noun:

• Japanese word constructed of elements from foreign languages ➜ 和製英語

noun:

• Japanese staunton-vine (Stauntonia hexaphylla)

noun:

• Japanese domestic market (esp. for automobiles); JDM

noun:

• 16th-century Jesuit-founded Japanese college - From Portuguese "collegio"

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 17.5cm by 25cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】

noun:

• Japanese containing expressions literally translated from European languages

noun:

• traditional Japanese steel (e.g. used in swords)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to turn oneself into; to transform oneself into
• to disguise oneself as
• to change radically; to metamorphose
• to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)