Meanings

isolated place

Avici (lowest level of hell)

umbrella tree (Pandanus odorifer)

mother

father

Akshobhya (the immovable buddha)

Akshobhya (the immovable buddha)

Akshobhya (one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas)

chrysalis of a swallowtail butterfly (esp. of species Atrophaneura alcinous)

Ophidion asiro (species of cusk eel)

Samoan mullet goby (Mugilogobius abei)

uncle (one's father's younger brother)

Okuni kabuki

Maitreya (bodhisattva)

open-mouthed form (statue with open mouth, symbolizing the "a" half of "aum")

stripping a samurai of clothes and swords and exiling him naked (Edo-period punishment)

Amitostigma kinoshitae (species of orchid)

laudanum

anilite

Thai basil (Ocimum basilicum)