薮

やぶ only

thicket; bush; grove; scrub

Abbreviation; Word usually written using kana alone

(medical) quack

Idiomatic expression

to only make work for oneself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth

East Asian pollia (Pollia japonica)

European hare (Lepus europaeus); brown hare

Rare term

thicket

holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months

Abbreviation

unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest

From the title of a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

being a mystery (due to conflicting testimony); being unknown; in a grove

bamboo grove

inept doctor; bad doctor; poor doctor; quack

to stir up trouble for oneself; to scare out a snake by poking at the bush

thicket of bamboo grass

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

squint; cross-eyed

mistaken view

thicket; bush; clump of bushes

Aedes (genus of mosquitoes); striped mosquito

spearflower (Ardisia japonica)

Food, cooking

yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff

wild camellia (Camellia japonica); common camellia

wetland with abundant vegetation

place where things are gathered

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend)

Rare term

thicket from which one cannot escape; maze

Rare term

getting lost; being unable to find a way out

bushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica)

Liriope minor (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

pademelon; paddymelon