noun:

• Japanese Industrial Standard; JIS - IT term

noun:

• Japanese Agricultural Standard; JAS

noun:

• old Japanese court music; gagaku

noun:

• Japanese paper

noun / ~の noun:

• blending of Japanese and Western styles - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese sword

noun:

• long, narrow card on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); strip of paper
• thin rectangle - abbreviation ➜ 短冊形

noun:

• city electric train service operated by (former) Japanese National Railways

noun:

• marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese

noun / ~する noun:

• translation into Japanese

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• Japanese-made

noun / ~の noun:

• Japanese clothing; being dressed in a kimono
• Japanese-style bookbinding

noun:

• Japanese person - term esp. used in ancient China, etc. - archaism

noun:

• early Japanese poetry form; poetic dialogue

noun:

• Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa) ［あずさ・アズサ］ ➜ 夜糞峰榛
• yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata) ［あずさ・アズサ］ ➜ キササゲ
• Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus) ［あずさ・アズサ］ ➜ 赤芽柏
• printing block
• catalpa bow ［あずさ］ - abbreviation ➜ 梓弓
• catalpa medium ［あずさ］ - abbreviation ➜ 梓巫女

noun:

• 3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle

noun:

• last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usually February 3 or 4); holiday for end of winter (accompanied by a bean scattering ceremony)
• last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar) - original meaning

noun:

• Japanese encephalitis

noun:

• Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir

noun:

• Japanese banknote - abbreviation ➜ 日本銀行券

noun:

• funeral service of a Japanese emperor - abbreviation ➜ 大喪の礼【たいそうのれい】
• Imperial mourning - archaism

noun:

• Japanese spindletree (Euonymus japonicus)

noun:

• narrator in Japanese silent cinema

noun:

• Japanese pampas grass (Miscanthus sinensis); silver grass; zebra grass