玉

the Emperor's voice

beautiful voice; beautiful sound

palanquin set with jewels

Idiomatic expression

money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man

skin as beautiful as a gem; beautiful skin

fence around a shrine

Shogi

king (of the junior player)

jade cup

your manuscript

New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

Food, cooking

bowl of rice topped with egg

dupion (double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms); dupioni

cocoon

chalcedony

your letter; excellent composition

eyes made of crystal, glass, etc. inserted into the head of a Buddhist statue

beautiful female eyes

thread knot (end of the thread tied up to a knot)

palace decorated with jewels; beautiful palace

Japanese sand lance (Ammodytes personatus); Pacific sandeel

ladle; scoop

ball-shaped; spherical

time charge for a geisha

Poetical term

(precious) letter; love letter

cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

Noun or verb acting prenominally

round; spherical; globe type; lens shape

the principle of honorable death and no surrender

broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)

plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia)

liquor; alcohol; sake