忍

carrying out operations in the open (of a ninja)

Alpine leek (Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum)

clandestine meeting (e.g. for lovers); rendezvous; tryst; secret meeting

dogged perseverance; untiring patience

atrocious and cold-blooded; cruel; brutal; merciless

weeping fern (Lepisorus thunbergianus)

Buddhism

anutpattika-dharma-ksanti (recognition that nothing really arises or perishes)

utterly callous; atrociously brutal; cruel and inhuman

Abbreviation; Buddhism

anutpattika-dharma-ksanti (recognition that nothing really arises or perishes)

Proverb

to endure what is unendurable is true endurance

enduring (hardships, inconveniences, etc.); tolerating; accepting

Japanese claw fern (Onychium japonicum); carrot fern

Polemonium kiushianum (species of Jacob's ladder)

tolerable limit; human limits; maximum permissible limit

to live on love

trumpet honeysuckle; Lonicera sempervirens

Polemonium caeruleum subsp. yezoense var. nipponicum (variety of Jacob's ladder)

Historical term

carrying out covert operations without being seen (of a ninja)

Historical term

special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito

clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern