Word usually written using kana alone

raft

forearm guard (made of thin metal plates)

Food, cooking

skewered baby-eel kabayaki

Poetical term

floral raft; flower raft; flower petals fallen on water, resembling a raft

Word usually written using kana alone

Helwingia japonica (species of shrub)

Archaic

oily perfume applied under white makeup

Taiwanese bamboo raft

life raft; lifeboat

sending logs downstream bound together in rafts; floating bound timber downstream; timber rafting

raftsman; rafter

butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus)

raftsman; rafter