Meanings

bamboo growing along a river bank

Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1603-1867)

Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867)

Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)

sandbank in a river

Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum)

aquatic insect larva (esp. of caddisflies, mayflies, etc.)

Metagonimus yokogawai (species of intestinal fluke)

river in which worshippers wash their hands (and rinse their mouth) prior to entering a shrine

Yoshikawa Shinto (Confucianist form of Shinto, stripped of Buddhist influence)

Szechuan cuisine

trickling brook

trickling brook

Batrachospermum gelatinosum (species of red alga)

class A river

fukagawa-meshi

buckskin (horse color)

still waters run deep

still waters run deep

rivers