Nounwaka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

NounJapanese language · wago; native Japanese words (as opposed to Chinese-derived words and other loanwords)

Noun(ancient) Japan; Yamato kingdom; state of Yamato · Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture) · Yamato (battleship)

NounJapanese person

Nounwokou; wakō; Japanese pirates who raided the Chinese and Korean coastlines between the 13th and 16th centuries

NounJapanese name (esp. for a plant or animal)

Nounnative Japanese characters (i.e. hiragana and katakana); kana · kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji

NounJapanese reading of a Chinese character

NounJapan

NounJapanese-style mirror

Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'Japanese production; Japanese product

Nounking of Yamato

Nountouch of Japanese; tinge of Japanese; Japanese flavour (flavor); Japanese style (e.g. of kanbun writing, in contrast to actual Chinese)

NounJapanese-made thing; Japanese goods; Japanese style thing

NounJapanese style

Nounstudy of classical Japanese literature and culture · Japanology; Japanese studies

NounYamato-e (classical Japan decorative paintings)

NounJapanese poem; waka; tanka

NounWamyōruijushō (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary)

NounJapanese-style ritual saddle

NounYamato no Aya clan

Nounyamatogoto; wagon; six or seven-stringed native Japanese zither

NounWagokuhen (c. 1489 Japanese kanji dictionary)

NounWajinden (passages in Records of the Three Kingdoms describing the Wa people)

NounYamato Takeru; 12th Emperor of Japan, who dressed as a maidservant in a successful plot to kill the leaders of the Kumaso tribe in Kumamoto

NounWamyōruijushō (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary)