new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
fields (of rice and other crops)
empty rice field (between the harvest and spring)
marshy rice field or paddy
lowly people (Edo period); eta
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
Nagata-chō (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
Akita prefecture (Tōhoku area)
rice paddy with a thick layer of mud at the bottom; muddy rice field
dish of fish or meat flavoured with soy sauce, mirin, etc., coated with starch and then deep-fried
deity of rice fields and harvests
Sarutahiko (Shinto god); Sarudahiko; Sarutabiko; Sarudabiko
Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province; sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords; in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword
speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
ritual performance (usually around New Year) to pray for a successful rice harvest in the coming year
rice field used to grow wheat
pond snail (Viviparidae spp.)
harvesting rice while it is still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
Narita divorce; divorce of a newlywed couple upon returning (to Narita Airport) from their honeymoon abroad
small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar; tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field
rice-planting song; rice planters' song
(arch.) master of the rice field; (arch.) chief farmer; lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
rice paddy plowing; tilling a rice field
New Year event to pray for a rich rice harvest
Tanuma period (1767-1786 CE)
belt used for back support after fifth month of pregnancy
ringworm (of the groin); jock itch; tinea cruris
ringworm (of the body); tinea corporis
to till a rice paddy; to plough a rice paddy (plow)
shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
black rat; roof rat; field mouse
Japanese nipplewort (Lapsanastrum apogonoides)
mud bath (e.g. for pigs); mud pit
Japanese butterbur (Petasites japonicus subsp. giganteus)
pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price
Tatsutahime; goddess of autumn; goddess of fall
Akita ranga; short-lived school of Western-style painting that originated in the Akita feudal domain in the mid Edo period
field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)
rice field in a low place
protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field
snow-covered rice paddy; field
farmland; private farm estates from before the Taika reform
kanji "rice paddy" radical at left (radical 102)
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Tanaka memorial (document, ca. 1927)
celery-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus); cursed buttercup; woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa); wavy bittercress
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest while the paddies are still covered with snow
dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out
Enhanced Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); EF-scale
dealing in unharvested rice crop
tanbo art; using rice of various types and colours to create giant pictures in rice fields
to do something stupid; to do something pointless; (lit.) to hit a muddy rice field with a stick
shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); F-scale
refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month
common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)
northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus); green plover; pewit; peewit
inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri, species found from Japan to Taiwan)
Oriental false hawksbeard (Youngia japonica)
Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus retusus)
Gnathopogon elongatus (species of cyprinid)
bowmouth guitarfish (Rhina ancylostoma); mud skate; shark ray
Corbicula sandai (species of basket clam)
willow-leafed magnolia (Magnolia salicifolia); anise magnolia
meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis); titlark
taccad (any plant of family Taccaceae)
malabar grouper (Epinephelus malabaricus); estuary cod; greasy cod; spotted river cod; estuary rock cod
water pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
Japanese scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis)
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)
yellow guitarfish (Rhinobatos schlegelii)
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Akitakata City (Hiroshima)
Iwata Station (Yamaguchi)
Horita Station (Nagoya Municipal Subway)