根

life

Nerima daikon (variety of daikon with a long, thick root)

ridge line; ridge trail

small roof (e.g. over the first storey of a building, a window, an attached shed or veranda, etc.); overhang

root; source; origin; basis

Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

spirit of true craftsman; (craftsman's) pride in his work

roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine

battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year)

to pour one's heart and soul into

Paris tetraphylla (flowering plant closely related to herb Paris)

perennial plant

grass-roots movement

Buckleya lanceolata (species of parasitic deciduous shrub)

bubo (inflamed swelling in a gland)

grass roots

underhand character; thievish nature

Buddhism

fate predetermined from a prior existence

to strike at the root of an evil

Food, cooking

hanetsuki gyoza; gyoza with wings

Mathematics

cube root

bureaucratism; bureaucratic nature

Botany

radicle

the island country of Japan; the Japanese Isles