山

Japanese oak silkmoth (Antheraea yamamai)

head priest (at a Buddhist temple)

Proverb

size isn't everything; something might be small but still pack a punch; Japanese pepper is small-grained but has a tongue-numbing tingle

mountain cliff; mountain precipice

Idiomatic expression

to make a lucky hit; to win against the odds; to anticipate correctly

Orig. meaning

to strike a vein of ore

Poetical term

mountain in the winter; sleeping mountain

partridge (of genus Perdix)

Geology

debris avalanche (of a volcano); collapse of volcanic edifice; sector collapse

English bread; roundtop bread; high tin loaf

'taru' adjective

mountains rising one above another

Buddhism

Mountain School (of Song-period Tiantai Buddhism)

chevron (in heraldry)

ashy minivet (species of passerine bird, Pericrocotus divaricatus)

Meliosma rigida (species of flowering plant)

rough geta (e.g. made of Japanese cedar)

small buildings at the sides of a Zen temple gate (containing stairs to the upper storey)

rock salt; halite

Word usually written using kana alone

Chinese mulberry (Morus bombycis)

kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa)

Japanese sumac (Rhus trichocarpa)

refined speech of the uptown residents of Tokyo

Lynx (constellation)

Omphalodes japonica (species of flowering plant related to borage)

Poetical term

mountain in springtime when all of the tree buds open at the same time; laughing mountain

mountainscape