草

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

plants; medicinal herbs

picture book

branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum); simplestem bur-reed

pathfinder; trailblazer; early settler

pioneer; founder; originator; groundbreaker

miracle herb; sacred herb; herb with mysterious powers

weeding

hay; dry grass

perennial plant

chocolate-vine (Akebia quinata); fiveleaf akebia; akebi

Food, cooking

fruit of the akebia

straw zori

Formal or literary term

commoner; humble subject

Historical term

private citizen who opposed the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period

Obsolete term

grassy place; bush

highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style

Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)

grass sickle

primrose

Siebold's primrose (Primula sieboldii); cherry blossom primrose; Japanese woodland primrose

Suru verb - special class

to draft; to write a rough copy

tassets (on a suit of armor, armour); vegetable dye

pheasant's eye (species of buttercup, Adonis ramosa)

study of plants, minerals, and animals for use in Chinese medicine; herbalism; pharmacognosy

overnight stay when traveling (travelling)

sleeping on grass in an open field

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Kusamakura (1906 novel by Natsume Sōseki); The Three-Cornered World; Grass Pillow

thicket; bush; clump of bushes

liquorice; licorice