翁

Common noun

old man; venerable gentleman

おう only; Honorific; Suffix

venerable; old; father

old man's mask

lantern shell

Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

Obsolete term

old man and old woman; elderly man and elderly woman

Formal or literary term

old man

sledgehammer

Proverb

the future is unpredictable; inscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate

albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)

Proverb

inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable

lychnis (Lychnis senno)

wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans)

Word usually written using kana alone

nodding anemone (Anemone cernua)

Archaic

chrysanthemum

Archaic

pine

windflower; anemone

white-haired old man

grey starling (gray)

tumbler; self-righting doll

Archaic

father-in-law (of a woman)

grandfather

village elder

albatross

Product name

Taketori-no-Okina no Monogatari (alternate name for Taketori Monogatari: The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)

Laysan albatross (Diomedea immutabilis)

sooty albatross (Phoebetria fusca)

black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)