桂

katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum); Japanese Judas tree

Abbreviation; Shogi

knight

Shogi

knight

Word usually written using kana alone; Go (game); Usu. ケイマ

keima; knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color

agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period); mediator; go-between

flattery; flatterer

慶安 only

Keian era (1648.2.15-1652.9.18)

fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans); sweet olive

rotary cutting; thinly slicing into a long strip (e.g. daikon, carrot, wood for plywood, etc.)

cinnamon; cassia (bark)

poet laureate

crown of laurel

Shogi

knight promotion

cinnamic acid

Food, cooking

Cassia wine; osmanthus wine

mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi); Chinese perch

keishibukuryōgan; traditional Chinese medicine prescribed for gynecological disorders

Historical term

Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912)

Rare term

katsura forest; beautiful forest

man in the moon

moon

bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree

laurel wreath

Company name

Gekkeikan (sake manufacturer)

golden osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans)

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

cinnamon

Word usually written using kana alone

cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum sieboldii)

Abbreviation

bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree

moon; moonlight

Orig. meaning

katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends)