萩

Word usually written using kana alone

bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)

dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn)

萩 only

Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)

reedy field

Hagi ware; Hagi pottery

Asian rosy finch (Leucosticte arctoa)

Organization name

Hagi Women's Junior College

Historical term

Hagi Rebellion (1876)

Rare term; Food, cooking

rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

Rare term

autumn garment

Food, cooking

rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

white bush clover

Lysimachia fortunei (species of loosestrife)

Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife)

Russian false yellow lupine (Thermopsis lupinoides)

Organization name

Sendaihagi

dwarf milkwort (Polygala japonica)

Chinese lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata); sericea lespedeza

bush clover (that blossoms in the autumn)

bush clover blossoming in the summer (esp. Lespedeza thunbergii)

shrubby lespedeza (Lespedeza bicolor)

Lespedeza buergeri (species of bush clover)

false indigo (Amorpha fruticosa); bastard indigo; leadwort

telegraph plant (Codariocalyx motorius); semaphore plant; dancing plant

woolly lespedeza (Lespedeza tomentosa) (species of flower)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Akihagijō (10C poem by Ono Michikaze, regarded as the first hiragana text)

leafy lespedeza (Lespedeza cyrtobotrya)