ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)
fireball; ball of fire; will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
Saitama (city, prefecture)
magatama; comma-shaped bead from prehistoric Japan, usually made of jade
rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet); fried egg; frying pan for making rolled eggs
drop of water; polka dots
Saitama Prefecture (Kanto area)
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)
iridescent colour; equivocal (reply, statement, etc.); ambiguous; vague
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
Tamayori-hime (deity; mother of Emperor Jimmu)
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
rolled Japanese-style omelette
to marry into a family of rank; to marry money
dupion (double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms); dupioni; cocoon
thick omelette; rolled omelette
skin as beautiful as a gem; beautiful skin
palanquin set with jewels; money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man
Saitama Prefectural Police (abbr)
spineless; cowardly; lacking balls; spoiled; spoilt; ruined
Chinese dish with fried egg and crab
hot sake with beaten egg and sugar
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
man marrying into wealth and power
egg boiled, peeled, and steeped in soy sauce marinade
(arch.) large jewel; (arch.) string of jewels; Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia)
apple of one's eye; one's jewel
ladle; tadpole; musical note
refined rice flour; rice flour for dumplings
bowl of rice topped with egg
jet black; pitch dark; peyote (Lophophora williamsii); mescaline
udon with raw egg, and shoyu, dashi, etc.
fresh onion (not cured to extend its shelf life); uncured onion
egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)
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
cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods
thin omelette cut into strips
(precious) letter; love letter
autumn zephyrlily (Zephyranthes candida); white rain lily; strings of beads hanging across a doorway; bead screen
longevity stone (gemstone that gives its bearer long life)
to shrivel up in fear; to tremble in fear; (lit.) one's testicles shrivel up
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
Saitama Institute of Technology
frying pan for making rolled eggs
street performance in which the performer transforms a specially made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem
tamago dofu; tamago-dofu; steamed egg custard with soup stock, cooked in a square mould
round; spherical; globe type; lens shape
soup or stew over which a beaten egg is poured before serving; egg-bound soup
soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin (usu. topping on ramen)
kanji "jewel" radical at left (radical 96)
reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree
egg donburi; bowl of rice topped with egg
you wish!; that's not going to happen; not a chance
billiard table; pool table
white-flowered camellia (Camellia japonica var.)
bubble float (angling); bobber
success does not come from talent alone; (lit.) an uncut gem does not sparkle
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
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
short time; fleeting moment
Columbus' egg; egg of Columbus
soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin
ball-tightening (e.g. when riding downwards on a roller coaster)
peeled egg; fully naked woman
(cute) egg-like face; (lit.) eyes and nose on an egg
calligraphy brush hair (esp. cat hair); scrotum hair; testicular hair
being held in suspense; being on edge; scared stiff; (lit.) one's testicles going up and down
silk brocade eggs; nishiki tamago; sweet steamed layered egg cake
Saitama Prefectural University
Saitama Gakuen University
even a woman of low birth can gain status by marrying rich (if she has the looks)
era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959 novel by Heinrich Böll); Billard um halb zehn
loading (a gun); charging (a firearm); loaded gun
one should learn from other's mistakes; (lit.) stones from other mountains can be used to polish one's own gems
Tamagawa Modern Art Museum
having nothing to do; idling
bead string; thread of life
alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)
globe valve; spherical valve; stop valve
something spread out widely; something taking a lot of space; (lit.) eight jō of a raccoon dog's scrotum
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Naticidae (family of molluscs comprising the moon snails)
ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves
Machilus thunbergii (species of laurel)
moon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell; Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster
painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
scarab beetle; sacred scarab (Scarabaeus sacer)
Gomphina melanegis (species of Venus clam)
Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)
Arenicola brasiliensis (species of lugworm)
tuberous sword fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)
Parasenecio farfarifolius var. bulbifer (variety of Indian plantain)
corn (Zea mays); periwinkle (Littorina brevicula)
tiger moon shell (Natica tigrina)
welcome (new year, new spring, etc.)
beautiful (as if adorned with jewels)
branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as a Shinto offering)