unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
being a mystery (due to conflicting testimony); being unknown; (lit.) in a grove
bolt from the blue; unforeseen event; complete surprise
to stir up trouble for oneself; (lit.) to scare out a snake by poking at the bush
inept doctor; bad doctor; poor doctor; quack
thicket; bush; clump of bushes
Aedes (genus of mosquitoes); striped mosquito
squint; cross-eyed; mistaken view
wild camellia (Camellia japonica); common camellia
hiking through dense vegetation; pushing one's way through a thicket; bushwhacking
squint; cross-eyed; mistaken view
yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff
yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff
woven mat tied around a plant to prevent damage from the weight of snow
bush dog (Speothos venaticus)
East Asian pollia (Pollia japonica)
orange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva var. kwanso); tawny daylily
big blue lilyturf (Liriope muscari); lilyturf; liriope; border grass; monkey grass
Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps)
Japanese cinnamon (Cinnamomum japonicum)
European hare (Lepus europaeus); brown hare
Japanese holly fern (Cyrtomium fortunei)
holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months