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Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual singing contest between famous male and female singers on New Year's Eve; sponsored and broadcast by NHK

crimson and purple; red-purple; magenta

red pickled ginger

flamingo (Phoenicopteridae)

red lips

Formal or literary term

red blood; blood

makeup

cloud of dust; mundane world

method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa

Food, cooking

grated daikon and chili; whole daikon with a chili notched inside and then grated together

Food, cooking

grated daikon and carrot

red spots; erythema

red light

sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka); red salmon

feminine tears; bitter tears; tears of blood

lipstick brush

benifude (variety of Japanese apricot)

redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

crimson mist; crimson-tinted clouds (e.g. at sunset)

family or brothel with a beautiful woman

Orig. meaning

vermillion-lacquered mansion

red snow (due to microscopic algae, yellow sand, etc.)

immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)

red-haired and blue-eyed (person); a Westerner

mangrove (esp. the black mangrove, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza)

tree with red leaves or flowers

powdered rouge

elephant hawk moth (Deilephila elpenor)