three; three years of age
three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again
braid (hair, cord. etc.); plait
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
set of three; three sets; three classes
triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate
calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat
three days and three nights
age thirty; one's thirties
three-digit number; hundreds column
three stars (shape); three stars (rating); Orion's belt; Chinese "Three Stars" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
(emblem of) three comma-shaped figures arranged to form a circle; three-way fight; three-sided struggle
bowing while pressing three fingers of each hand on floor
calico (pattern); tortoiseshell-and-white; calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
Mie prefecture (Kinki area)
dead of night; middle of the night; midnight; third quarter of the hour of the ox (2-2:30am, or 3-3:30am)
misuji (cut of beef, usu. from the chuck); shamisen; samisen
threefold; folded in three
the child is father to the man; (lit.) the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100
the three main Shinto gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children
three boxes; three box-shaped things; three containers
dead of night (when even the trees and plants sleep)
three-pronged fork; trident; trifurcate; three-pronged; three-way (e.g. outlet)
playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating
the three main gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children
three temporal states of existence; past, present and future; three generations
21st day after death; 21st day after birth
adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly; act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly
san jiao (triple heater; functional metabolic organ in Chinese medicine)
Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture
wicket (e.g. in cricket); castle; stumps
playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating
mitsuuroko emblem (three triangles in a triangular pattern; Hōjō clan symbol)
soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)
rubella; German measles; three day measles
the three weapons for catching criminals (Edo period)
traditional method of stirring soba while cooking
toddler clothes (by children after age 3, before age 5); baby clothes
winter wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Closterium (genus of algae)
any god of foodstuffs; Uka-no-Mitama (god of rice)
an old man is twice a child
new moon; lunar phase when the moon is completely invisible
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
Miwa Shinto (sect of amalgamated Shinto developed in the Muromachi Period)
mother bear with two cubs
three people sitting in a triangle
Miura map fold; special technique for folding used on some solar panel arrays
Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan)
branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum); simplestem bur-reed
Pheropsophus jessoensis (species of bombardier beetle)
golden spadefish (Platax boersii); Boer's batfish
hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf
Euhadra peliomphala (species of land snail)
barred button quail (Turnix suscitator)
whitetail dascyllus (Dascyllus aruanus); humbug dascyllus; banded dascyllus; white-tailed damselfish
leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc.
Miki Station (Miki Railway)
Mikawa Station (Hokkaido)