fireball; ball of fire; will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
drop of water; polka dots
fine jewel; article of excellent quality; beautiful woman; beauty
guts; pluck; nerve; spirit
fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault
Urashima's casket (in the story of Urashima Tarō); Pandora's box; one's closely guarded treasure
branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering); sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
tama-ire; game in which two teams throw as many balls as possible into a basket atop a high pole (usu. played at school sports festivals)
black ball; black, round sigil; pupil; black candy
billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)
jeweler; (arch.) soap bubble vendor
bad character; bad person; villain; baddie
man who marries a wealthy or upwardly mobile woman; (male) gold digger
white gem (esp. a pearl); rice flour dumpling; white-flowered camellia
jewel beetle (esp. Chrysochroa fulgidissima); buprestid
pork okonomiyaki; pork and egg
traditional Japanese steel made from iron sand (esp. for use in swords)
pebble; round stone; boulder
dupion (double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms); dupioni; cocoon
fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault
skin as beautiful as a gem; beautiful skin
palanquin set with jewels; money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man
fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault
spineless; cowardly; lacking balls; spoiled; spoilt; ruined
Chinese dish with fried egg and crab
New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)
soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin
spineless; cowardly; lacking balls; spoiled; spoilt; ruined
apple of one's eye; one's jewel
udon with raw egg, and shoyu, dashi, etc.
to scatter like beads; to fly off in droplets (e.g. sweat, water); to sparkle; to gleam brilliantly (esp. of a sword blade)
thread knot (end of the thread tied up to a knot)
football (soccer); kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles
sugidama; ball made from sprigs of Japanese cedar, traditionally hung in the eaves of sake breweries
fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault
autumn zephyrlily (Zephyranthes candida); white rain lily; strings of beads hanging across a doorway; bead screen
pork okonomiyaki; pork and egg
fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault
street performance in which the performer transforms a specially made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem
round; spherical; globe type; lens shape
magatama; comma-shaped bead from prehistoric Japan, usually made of jade
kanji "jewel" radical at left (radical 96)
egg donburi; bowl of rice topped with egg
bubble float (angling); bobber
palanquin set with jewels; money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man
Chinese dish with fried egg and crab
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering); sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
skin as beautiful as a gem; beautiful skin
dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms
half portion of noodles or fried rice; half ball (of noodles)
tamaryokucha; Japanese green tea similar to gunpowder tea
era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi
type of woolen fabric, esp. used for overcoats
Cintamani stone; wish-fulfilling jewel
billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)
pork okonomiyaki; pork and egg
Chinese dish with fried egg and crab
(precious) letter; love letter
broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year); plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia); liquor; alcohol
broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year); plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia); liquor; alcohol
ball-tightening (e.g. when riding downwards on a roller coaster)
round; spherical; globe type; lens shape
bubble float (angling); bobber
bubble float (angling); bobber
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
type of woolen fabric, esp. used for overcoats
Tamagawa Modern Art Museum
bead string; thread of life
alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)
ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves
painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)
Arenicola brasiliensis (species of lugworm)
tuberous sword fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)
corn (Zea mays); periwinkle (Littorina brevicula)
beautiful (as if adorned with jewels)