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ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan

traditional Japanese handball (game)

cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)

burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case

rubber ball

marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green algae; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball

chestnut in its burr

close-cropped head

pinecone; pine cone

Reeve's spirea (Spiraea cantoniensis); May bush

dakyū; polo-like game

cone; strobile; strobilus

pinecone; pine cone

Japanese snowball; Viburnum plicatum

ball-and-mallet game played during New Year's celebrations

glomerulus

burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)

Japanese pinecone fish (Monocentris japonica)

ball-and-mallet game played during New Year's celebrations

playing catch

temaribana; Japanese snowball (Viburnum plicatum)

Viburnum plicatum var. plicatum

Pronodularia japanensis (species of freshwater mussel)

Paralomis histrix (species of king crab); porcupine crab