noun:

• Chinese "Three Stars" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・白虎【びゃっこ】

noun:

• three people on the same vehicle (usu. bike)

noun:

• the three phases of matter: solid, liquid and gas

noun:

• threefold training; three divisions of the noble eightfold path - Buddhism term ➜ 八正道

noun:

• the three players other than oneself - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• the three weapons for catching criminals (Edo period) ➜ 刺股・突棒・袖搦

noun:

• three great people (e.g. of the Meiji Restoration) ➜ 維新の三傑

noun:

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

expression:

• everybody doing well (e.g. purchaser, buyer and society); three-way satisfaction; all three parties doing well

noun:

• three-color printing (red and yellow and blue); three-colour printing

noun:

• southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus); la Plata three-banded armadillo

noun:

• sacred tree
• support pillars of the traditional fire festival bonfires ［しんぼく］

noun:

• 1st note of the traditional Chinese chromatic scale (approx. D) - Music term ➜ 壱越・十二律
• eleventh lunar month

noun:

• waiting for the sun (traditional all-night event of worship and neighbourhood fellowship) ➜ 月待ち【つきまち】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to restrict; to limit; to confine

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be confined to
• to be best (for); to be the best plan; to be the only way (to) - as ...は...に限る

noun:

• three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun:

• narezushi; fermented sushi (pickled in brine rather than vinegar), precursor of modern sushi

noun:

• imprisonment (for one to three years) - archaism ➜ 五刑

noun:

• awamori; strong Okinawan liquor distilled from rice or millet

noun:

• Okinawan pancake (usu. containing garlic chives, canned tuna, etc.)

noun:

• biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute) - archaism ➜ 琵琶

noun:

• pegbox (of a shamisen, etc.)

noun:

• tuning peg (of a shamisen, etc.) - obscure term ➜ 転手

noun:

• tuning peg (of a shamisen, etc.) - also written with the ateji 天神 ➜ 転手

noun:

• first string (of a shamisen, etc.)