new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
rice field on flat land; unterraced paddy
fields (of rice and other crops)
empty rice field (between the harvest and spring)
rice field; rice paddy; paddy field
(water-filled) paddy field
lowly people (Edo period); eta
saltpan; field for drying salt
Nagata-chō (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
rice paddy with a thick layer of mud at the bottom; muddy rice field
dish of fish or meat flavoured with soy sauce, mirin, etc., coated with starch and then deep-fried
Akita Prefecture (Tōhoku area)
deity of rice fields and harvests
Dōtanuki school (Muromachi-period swordsmithing school); sword of the Dōtanuki school (usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords); heavy sword
farmer; bumpkin; yokel; peasant
speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
ritual performance (usually around New Year) to pray for a successful rice harvest in the coming year
rice field used to grow wheat
pond snail (Viviparidae spp.)
harvesting rice while it is still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
Narita divorce; divorce of a newlywed couple upon returning (to Narita Airport) from their honeymoon abroad
small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar; tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field
Murata rifle (Meiji-era single-shot rifle)
rice-planting song; rice planters' song
(arch.) master of the rice field; (arch.) chief farmer; lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Tanuma period (1767-1786)
New Year event to pray for a rich rice harvest
rice paddy plowing; tilling a rice field
rice-planting machine; rice transplanter
Akita beauty (stereotype of fair-skinned, attractive women from Akita)
belt used for back support after fifth month of pregnancy
geta for working in rice fields
Akita Prefectural Police (abbr)
taro variety cultivated in paddy fields
ringworm (of the groin); jock itch; tinea cruris
vengeful spirit of a rice paddy's former owner (by artist Toriyama Sekien)
shrine ritual held within the first two months of the year to forecast or pray for a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
ringworm (of the body); tinea corporis
to till a rice paddy; to plough a rice paddy (plow)
shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
black rat; roof rat; field mouse
Japanese nipplewort (Lapsanastrum apogonoides)
mud bath (e.g. for pigs); mud pit
Toyota Industries Corporation
pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price
Tatsutahime; goddess of autumn; goddess of fall
Akita ranga; short-lived school of Western-style painting that originated in the Akita feudal domain in the mid Edo period
Japanese butterbur (Petasites japonicus subsp. giganteus)
field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)
rice field in a low place
protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field
snow-covered rice paddy; field
farmland; private farm estates from before the Taika reform
kanji "rice paddy" radical at left (radical 102)
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Tanaka memorial (document, ca. 1927)
Akita Prefectural University
celery-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus); cursed buttercup; woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa); wavy bittercress
Japanese Red Cross Junior College of Akita
Japanese Red Cross Akita College of Nursing
Japanese Red Cross Toyota College of Nursing
Shibata Gakuen University
Akita University of Economics and Law
Akita University of Nursing and Welfare
Mita International School (abbr)
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Akita Museum of Modern Art
Tōei Mita Line; Tōden Mita Line (closed 1968)
Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Murata reaction (serum test for syphilis); Murata test
dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest while the paddies are still covered with snow
Ota Memorial Museum of Art
dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out
Enhanced Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); EF-scale
dealing in unharvested rice crop
Saruta Hiko no Mikoto (Shintō god)
to do something stupid; to do something pointless; (lit.) to hit a muddy rice field with a stick
tanbo art; using rice of various types and colours to create giant pictures in rice fields
Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); F-scale
Akita Kantō Festival (3-6 August)
refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month
Jubilo Iwata (professional football club)
common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)
northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus); green plover; pewit; peewit
inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri)
Oriental false hawksbeard (Youngia japonica)
Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus retusus)
Gnathopogon elongatus (species of cyprinid)
East Asian sage (Salvia japonica)
bowmouth guitarfish (Rhina ancylostoma); mud skate; shark ray
Corbicula sandai (species of basket clam)
stream brown frog (Rana sakuraii); Napparagawa frog
willow-leafed magnolia (Magnolia salicifolia); anise magnolia
meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis); titlark
taccad (any plant of family Taccaceae)
malabar grouper (Epinephelus malabaricus); estuary cod; greasy cod; spotted river cod; estuary rock cod
Japanese scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis)
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)
yellow guitarfish (Rhinobatos schlegelii)
water pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Iwata Station (Yamaguchi)
Horita Station (Nagoya Municipal Subway)