羽

swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)

angel's feathered robe

summer haori (coat)

molting (of birds); moulting

flight feathers

summer plumage; nuptial plumage

bird's crest

Company name

Kashiwazaki Kariwa

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

jet black; pitch dark

Word usually written using kana alone

peyote (Lophophora williamsii); mescaline

to be in a miserable state; to be down and out

blue-black (color, colour)

first segment of a chicken's wing; drumette

glossy black

spangle (species of black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor)

Chinese peacock (species of swallowtail butterfly, Papilio bianor)

Organization name

Otowaya (stage name of a kabuki family)

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

Paris tetraphylla (flowering plant closely related to herb Paris)

large Japanese pilchard

Buckleya lanceolata (species of parasitic deciduous shrub)

grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus); gray-faced buzzard

blacktip grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus fasciatus)

haori coat decorated with one's family crest

waist-high wainscoting; waist-high wainscotting