蛮

fried chicken with vinegar and tartar sauce

roasted or deep-fried fish or meat, marinated in a spicy sauce

Dated term

unconquered savage; uncivilized aboriginal

Historical term

aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction

uncivilized country; savage land

foreign god

Food, cooking

noodles with duck meat and Welsh onions

confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized

Food, cooking

chicken nanban

primitive and barbarous; uncivilized and barbaric

'taru' adjective

chirping of a small bird

sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew

poultry or fish stew with chili peppers and Welsh onions mixed in

land of the barbarians

the barbarians beyond the borders of old China

Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense); Johnsongrass; Egyptian millet

berry catchfly (Silene baccifera); Cucubalus baccifer (former name)

incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from eastern India)

Historical term

imported to Japan by early European traders

Historical term

foreign ship (esp. from Spain and Portugal from the late Muromachi period to the early Edo period); Nanban trade ship

Historical term

Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century

Historical term

Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)

Historical term; Orig. used from the Muromachi to the Edo period

Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); southern barbarian

Historical term; Art, aesthetics

painted folding screen with scenes of early European visitors to Japan

Rare term

uncivilized indigenes

Western books (esp. Dutch; in the Edo period)