noun:

• Japanese umbrella pine (Sciadopitys verticillata); parasol pine; koyamaki

noun:

• Kofun period (of Japanese history, 250-538 CE); Tumulus period ➜ 古墳

noun:

• Central League (Japanese baseball league); CL

noun:

• Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech

expression / noun:

• Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir ➜ 樅【もみ】

noun:

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

noun:

• scorpionfly (esp. the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica); scorpion fly

noun:

• Taiwan Expedition (punitive expedition by the Japanese military forces; 1874)

noun:

• exotic non-Japanese wood (rosewood, ebony, blackwood, etc.); imported wood

noun:

• Art of the Brush (esp. school of Japanese Zen calligraphy)

noun:

• Japanese big-ear radix (pond snail, Radix auricularia japonica)

noun:

• Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)

noun:

• traditional love hotel; traditional Japanese inn specially for couples - because the Japanese hot spring symbol looks like an upside-down jellyfish ➜ 連れ込み宿・温泉マーク

noun:

• weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula); weeping Japanese apricot

noun:

• var. of Japanese paper made from the Oriental paper bush

noun:

• Uji-cha; prized Japanese green tea cultivated around Uji, Kyoto

noun:

• Shizuoka-cha; prized Japanese green tea cultivated in Shizuoka Prefecture

noun:

• style of classical Japanese swordsmanship involving use of two swords

godan ~ぶ verb / transitive:

• to make (a promise); to conclude (a contract)
• to act as a go-between; to act as mediator
• to curry favour with - usu. as ご機嫌を取り結ぶ

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to have a taste for; to be fond of; to have an interest in (e.g. a hobby)
• to be modest; to be prudent

godan ~う verb:

• to pray that one avoids disaster or illness; to pray - archaism
• to pray for the death or misfortune of another; to curse
• to treat illness with prayer

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand
• to get involved in; to make a move on
• to start a fight; to make a move in violence

godan ~む verb:

• to conceive; to become pregnant

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with
• to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.); to involve (e.g. risk)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be swollen and ripe (of a plant ear, head, sprout, etc.)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall into (e.g. a hole)
• to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.)
• to fall into (a trap, etc.)
• to fall; to surrender; to capitulate

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be disoriented by
• to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)
• to become dark - archaism