Noungathering spot; center; centre

Nouna number of interesting stories; book containing a number of interesting stories

NounAsian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps)

Noun(medical) quack

Nounbush dog (Speothos venaticus)

Nounerect hedge parsley (Torilis japonica); Japanese hedge parsley; upright hedge parsley

Nounthicket; bush; clump of bushes

Nounbig blue lilyturf (Liriope muscari); lilyturf; liriope; border grass; monkey grass

Nounwoven mat tied around a plant to prevent damage from the weight of snow

Nounthicket of bamboo grass

Nounwetland with abundant vegetation · place where things are gathered

Nounwild camellia (Camellia japonica); common camellia

Nounbamboo grove

Noununnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest

NounAedes (genus of mosquitoes); striped mosquito

Nounspearflower (Ardisia japonica)

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Nounbeing a mystery (due to conflicting testimony); being unknown; in a grove

Nounorange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva var. kwanso); tawny daylily

Nounyabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff

NounJapanese cinnamon (Cinnamomum japonicum)

NounEast Asian pollia (Pollia japonica)

Nounholiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months

NounJapanese holly fern (Cyrtomium fortunei)

NounEuropean hare (Lepus europaeus); brown hare

NounYabunouchi school of tea ceremony

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbhiking through dense vegetation; pushing one's way through a thicket; bushwhacking

Nouninept doctor; bad doctor; poor doctor; quack

Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'squint; cross-eyed · mistaken view

Nounbushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica)

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Nounbolt from the blue; unforeseen event; complete surprise

Nounlabyrinth; maze

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Adverb (fukushi)out of the blue; all of a sudden; without warning; unexpectedly

Nounpademelon; paddymelon

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), NounYawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend) · thicket from which one cannot escape; maze · getting lost; being unable to find a way out

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'su' endingto stir up trouble for oneself; to scare out a snake by poking at the bush