豆

sugar-coated soybeans

parched beans (or nuts) scattered around the house during setsubun

Food, cooking

dish of simmered soybeans and vegetables

straw-wrapped natto

Proverb

all girls eventually awaken to sex; even the seed growing in the shade will burst open

sweet pea

black gram (Vigna mungo); black lentil

roasted soybeans scattered to drive away evil spirits

natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

Food, cooking

dried, fried broad beans

common vetch (Vicia sativa); tare

green soybean variety used for edamame (esp. from Yamagata Prefecture)

Food, cooking

black turtle bean; black bean

cannellini bean; white kidney bean; navy bean

Idiomatic expression

insisting one is right even after one has been proven wrong

woolly lespedeza (Lespedeza tomentosa) (species of flower)

snap pea; sugar snap pea; sugar pea

borlotti bean; cranberry bean

croton oil

Historical term

Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

Historical term

Suruga and Izu (provinces)

Rare term

cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum); cardamon

Rare term

fertilizer made of composted natto

Idiomatic expression; Rare term

trusting a cat with milk; setting a wolf to mind the sheep; (giving) rice boiled with adzuki beans to a fox