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home for mothers and children

Mahjong

seven pairs; winning hand composed of seven pairs

Music

dizi; Chinese bamboo transverse flute

plantain (esp. Asian plantain, Plantago asiatica)

Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)

vertical part of kanmuri cap

Jersey cudweed (species of cottonweed, Gnaphalium affine)

tongue depressor

clove oil

plant hopper (any insect of family Delphacidae); leafhopper

last child

Food, cooking

veal

plunger (of syringe)

Huainanzi (ancient Chinese collection of essays)

silver-stripe round herring (Spratelloides gracilis)

Arecaceae (palm family of plants); Palmae

marbled sole (Pleuronectes yokohamae)

festival in honor of Daikokuten

Fire Rat (13th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1936, 1996, 2056)

Elaeagnus multiflora var. hortensis (variety of goumi)

brush

dead child

hemp yarn or linen thread woven into a coarse cloth used for mosquito nets, summer clothes, etc.

mud pie

seed ball ("nature farming" technique)

Word usually written using kana alone

deer truffle (Elaphomyces granulatus); false truffle