Meanings

collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)

ne-no-hi-no-asobi

prime meridian

small knife that is largely ornamental or used to cut open letters and the like

ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind

group (of atoms)

women's junior college

women's junior college

child born out of wedlock

young female TV announcer (who also frequently functions as a television talent doing on-location fluff pieces for variety shows)

(as used in Northern Japan) greenling

reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)

calling bird (esp. a cuckoo)

stone moroko (Pseudorasbora parva)

meatball

deuteron

basidiomycete

Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)

digital watermark

eleventh month of the lunar calendar