tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber
(many) trees; every tree; all kinds of trees
Japanese laurel; spotted laurel; Aucuba japonica; live tree
fruit of a tree; nut; berry
wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)
Japanese spindletree (Euonymus japonicus)
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
roadside tree; row of trees
grove of miscellaneous trees; copse; coppice; thicket
logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber; new lumber
yew plum pine (Podocarpus macrophyllus)
cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
garden shrubs; trees; potted plant
dead tree; withered tree; leafless tree; bare tree
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
tree as seen in winter (esp. a barren deciduous tree); evergreen tree
sacred tree; support pillars of the traditional fire festival bonfires
avenue; boulevard; tree-lined street
standing tree; standing timber
row of cherry trees (lining a street)
wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
wooden hammer; wooden mallet
wooden frame; wooden crate; wooden pallet
decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; obscure, meaningless life (metaphor)
dogwood (Cornus controversa)
various kinds of small trees; assorted trees
Hedera rhombea (species of ivy)
wood grain; unpainted wood
live tree; green wood; unseasoned wood
wood chips; wood offcuts; wood shavings; sawdust
raspberry (any plant of genus Rubus, esp. Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus)
Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki); Chinese persimmon; kaki
piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood
crude wood (i.e. with many knots)
palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
jade plant (Crassula argentea, Crassula ovata)
wooden form; wooden model; wooden pattern
wood construction; woodworking; (arch.) gardener
grade of wood; quality of wood; cut end (of a piece of wood)
leaf bud; bud of Japanese pepper tree (Xanthoxylum piperitum)
Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir
Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo
exotic non-Japanese wood (rosewood, ebony, blackwood, etc.); imported wood
flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
crossarm; bracket; blade; semaphore
yoke; constraints; oppression
dead of night (when even the trees and plants sleep)
marlin; swordfish; spearfish; sailfish
avenue of cedars (cryptomeria)
gate money; admission fee
avenue; boulevard; tree-lined street
flowering tree; Japanese red maple (Acer pycnanthum)
birch tree (esp. the Japanese white birch, Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
any beech tree of genus Castanopsis
breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis); breadfruit tree
cutting; planting (a cutting)
dyeing with vegetable dyes
texture (e.g. skin, fabric); grain (e.g. wood); detail
chicken grunt (Parapristipoma trilineatum); threeline grunt
publication; wood-block printing; canopy (trees)
tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
even monkeys fall from trees; anyone can make a mistake; pride comes before a fall; even Homer sometimes nods
to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture
half a loaf is better than none; (lit.) even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain
Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech
kanji "tree" radical at left (radical 75)
silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)
cloud ear mushroom (Auricularia auricula-judae); wood ear mushroom; Jew's ear mushroom
workmen's chant while pulling a heavy load
baseboard; skirting board
wooden stick; wooden pole
Aphananthe oriental elm (Aphananthe aspera); mukutree
Japanese alder (Alnus japonica)
anil indigo (Indigofera suffruticosa); Assam indigo (Strobilanthes cusia)
trees and grass; vegetation
ancon; bracket; corbel piece
flattery will motivate anyone; flattery can do wonders; (lit.) even a pig will climb up a tree if flattered
person who has lost something they used to rely on; (lit.) a monkey fallen from the tree
smooth; meticulous; painstaking; detailed
Machilus thunbergii (species of laurel)
magnolia (Magnolia obovata); Japanese big leaf magnolia
Pandanus boninensis (species of screw pine)
Nepal holly (Ilex integra)
pounding the edges of planks of wood to join them
lintel; crossbar; gate with a crossbar; roofed gate
classification of fragrant woods used as incense
Schoepfia jasminodora (tree of family Schoepfiaceae)
kinoko; mountain-dwelling demon resembling a child
kola tree (Cola acuminata, etc.); cola tree
traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where one person beats a fruit tree (usu. persimmon tree) with a pole while threatening to cut it down if it does not provide a plentiful harvest, with another person responding "I will, I will" for the tree
Japanese horse chestnut (Aesculus turbinata)
tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera); tuliptree; yellow poplar
to bow (in great numbers) to a greater authority; to be drawn (en masse) to something attractive; (lit.) even the plants yield
inflexible people; heartless people; (lit.) Buddhist images of wood, metal, and stone
wooden water pipe; wooden flume
attentive to detail; careful; considerate; meticulous; detailed
Japanese linden (Tilia japonica)
understory trees; underbrush; undergrowth
Mariko Aoki phenomenon; phenomenon of feeling an urge to defecate when stepping inside a bookstore
have a pass to; have access to
paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
wooden dolls; type of theatrical makeup; type of artwork using paper, cloth and paste
white-bellied woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis)
wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll
Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed); kisouma
to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; (lit.) to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree
to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; (lit.) to look for fish by climbing a tree
plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis)
smooth; meticulous; painstaking; detailed
wax tree (Toxicodendron succedaneum); Japanese wax tree
wooden vat (esp. for sake brewing); wooden tank
Betulaceae (birch family)
evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
early spiketail (species of flowering plant, Stachyurus praecox)
bark beetle (Scolytidae spp.); gribble (Limnoria lignorum)
India rubber tree (Ficus elastica)
pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan)
buttonwood tree (Platanus occidentalis); American sycamore; buttonball tree
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
forked viburnum (Viburnum furcatum); scarlet leaved viburnum
malus tschonoskii; white angel
all returns to dust; (lit.) the fruit of the tree falls to the roots
of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse
wooden blocks used as clappers (kabuki)
balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale); acajou
red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba); Indian silk-cotton tree
kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra)
game tree (in combinatorial game theory)
children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it
spearflower (Ardisia japonica)
children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it
Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii (variety of bigleaf hydrangea)
hierarchical tree structure
Kibe sect (of Shin Buddhism)
wood sculptor; woodcarver
person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans
a wise retainer chooses a great lord to serve; (lit.) a wise bird chooses a good tree in which to roost
(sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole
angle (corner) block; angle rafter
to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; (lit.) to look for fish by climbing a tree
shoe tree; shoe stretcher; shoemaker's last
citrus juice (used similarly to vinegar)
Chinese pistache (Pistacia chinensis)
eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
pickled buds of chocolate vine, Japanese pepper tree, etc.
Dorado (constellation); the Goldfish; the Swordfish
devil's walking stick (Aralia elata); Japanese angelica tree
snow fungus (Tremella fuciformis); silver ear fungus
Prunus zippeliana (East Asian species of prunus)
Lyonia ovalifolia (species of plant in the Ericaceae family)
swordfish (Xiphias gladius); broadbill
yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata); Chinese catalpa
Futabasaurus suzukii (species of plesiosaur)
tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus spp.)
Japanese poplar (Populus maximowiczii)
bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum); northern bilberry
Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus)
striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax)
Leucothoe grayana (species of ericaceous plant)
traveller's tree (Ravenala madagascariensis); traveller's palm
Aucuba japonica var. borealis (variety of Japanese laurel)
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
castor aralia (Kalopanax septemlobus); prickly castor oil tree
psylla (any insect of family Psyllidae); psyllid; jumping plant louse
Ryukyu tree lizard (Japalura polygonata)
Litsea coreana (species of tree in the laurel family)
Nikko maple (Acer maximowiczianum)
Chinese sumac (Brucea javanica)
shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)
Disanthus cercidifolius (species of witch-hazel)
summer savory (Satureja hortensis)
fiddle-leaf fig (Ficus lyrata)
weight-chain-pole weapon; flail
Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam
Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)
common treecreeper (species of songbird, Certhia familiaris)
great morinda (Morinda citrifolia); Indian mulberry; noni; beach mulberry; cheese fruit
black marlin (Makaira indica)
Para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)
gray bottlebrush (Callistemon speciosus); grey bottlebrush
handkerchief tree (Davidia involucrata); dove tree
iyomizugi winter hazel (Corylopsis spicata)
golden ear (Tremella aurantia)
spike winter hazel (Corylopsis spicata)
cloud ear fungus (Auricularia polytricha); wood ear fungus; black fungus
Caulerpa scalpelliformis (species of green alga)
horseradish tree (Moringa oleifera)
hornbeam maple (Acer carpinifolium)
rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
climbing perch (esp. of genus Anabas)
Indian silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
Alangium platanifolium var. trilobum
Lespedeza buergeri (species of bush clover)
Heptathela kimurai (species of burrowing spider)
American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Siebold's arrowwood (Viburnum sieboldii)
Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)
common bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); blue whortleberry; European blueberry; bilberry; whortleberry; blueberry
horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum); conker tree
mulberry psyllid (Anomoneura mori)
fruits left on a tree during winter (supposedly causing more fruits to appear in the next season)
Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata)
Miki Station (Miki Railway)