painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan; wild boar (meat)
Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)
Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
Christianity (in feudal Japan); Christian
to take pains (doing something); to take great care
point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)
working earnestly; sincerity; diligence; effort; pains
cinnabar; vermilion (mercury sulfide); red color; vermilion pigment; elixir (esp. of immortality); pill
art of making elixirs (e.g. in Chinese trad. medicine); alchemy
red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane; red-cap oranda (goldfish); Tanchō (koi variety); having a red crest or patch on the head (of a bird, fish, etc.)
Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees
ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
light crimson; scarlet tinged with purple
boar meat hot pot; boar stew
red lead; minium; lead(II,IV) oxide
clandestine Christian (during the Edo period); secret Christian
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); winter peony
red and blue; paints; colors; painting; picture
Khitan people; Khitai; Kitan; Kidan
elixir of life (prepared from cinnabar in ancient China)
tan-e; early multi-colour ukiyo-e print
chief trader (of the Dutch trading post at Dejima); captain (of a European ship; Edo period)
red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane
any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry
kabuki brush (type of powder brush)
Tanshū (the two former provinces of Tanba and Tango)
beautiful appearance of a woman
moss-rose purslane (Portulaca grandiflora)
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
clematis (Clematis apiifolia); virgin's bower
Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); winter peony
golden osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans)
former Christian (forced to apostatize during the Edo period); fallen Christian
5-point card with a red tanzaku; red ribbon card; the three 5-point cards with ribbons (high-scoring meld)
Peucedanum japonicum (species of umbellifer with edible leaves)
writing an inscription on a stone monument (e.g. before carving it)
Asian melastome (Melastoma candidum)
blue vitriol; chalcanthite
Ryōtan (region in Kansai corresponding to the two historical provinces of Tanba and Tango)
princess-flower (Tibouchina urvilleana)
Order of the Precious Crown, Peony
botan shrimp (Pandalus nipponensis)
Clematis stans (buttercup species)
Ranunculus silerifolius (species of buttercup); crowfoot
lovebird (esp. Lilian's lovebird, Agapornis lilianae)
Grateloupia elliptica (species of red alga)
type of smelling salts sold in the late Edo period