玉

Food, cooking

squid okonomiyaki

Bon holiday gift (usu. money given to children by parents or grandparents)

yellow jasper; beryl

bamboo curtain; palace

pebble; round stone; boulder

bead string; thread of life

short interest; short account

liquidation of speculative accounts

scapegoating

Slang; Derogatory

Saitama Prefecture

alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)

Food, cooking

half portion of noodles or fried rice; half ball (of noodles)

Gomphina melanegis (species of Venus clam)

Machilus thunbergii (species of laurel)

ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves

supervillain; arch-villain

globe valve; spherical valve; stop valve

hand net (for fishing)

Slang

front lens element (of a camera lens assembly)

apple of one's eye

tuberous sword fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)

rice seedling

Parasenecio farfarifolius var. bulbifer (variety of Indian plantain)

Legend

Tamayori-hime (deity; mother of Emperor Jimmu)