river; stream; River; the ... river
the House of Tokugawa; the Tokugawas
Kanagawa prefecture (Kanto area)
Milky Way; luminous band corresponding to the plane of the galaxy
mountain river; mountain stream
Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)
Akutagawa Prize (literary award)
Kagawa prefecture (Shikoku)
Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1603-1867)
ditch with running water; drainage channel
imagawayaki; thick pancake containing bean jam, served hot
river which often overflows its banks
Sumida River Firework Festival (Tokyo)
kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature)
loach stew; loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root
to cross the Rubicon; to pass a point of no return
river in which worshippers wash their hands (and rinse their mouth) prior to entering a shrine
dried-up river; wadi; dry arroyo
Sanzu River (Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx)
fukagawa-meshi; rice cooked with clams
to (try to) act like a big-shot
river raised above the surrounding land
Sagawa Express Scandal (1992)
Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line
Metagonimus yokogawai (species of intestinal fluke)
rice bowl with clams and miso broth
river in which worshippers purify themselves before praying
dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima)
Calopteryx cornelia (species of damselfly)
Nakagawa Station (Kanagawa)
Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station
Sakuragawa Station (Osaka)
Katsuragawa Station (Hokkaido)
Yanagawa Station (Yamanashi)