Meanings

bai ze (mythical Chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)

helophyte

rape (Brassica rapa)

slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)

schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate

Yonezawa beef

brightening agent

Aizawa incident (assassination of Major General Tetsuzan Nagata by Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Aizawa; August 12, 1935)

metallic lustre

tea-of-heaven (Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata)

glossy paper

osarizawaite

route beside a mountain stream

a lot more

Eleorchis japonica (species of orchid)

poor households have many children

poor households have many children

resinous lustre

submetallic luster

pearly lustre