thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
being a mystery (due to conflicting testimony); being unknown; (lit.) in a grove
out of the blue; all of a sudden; without warning; unexpectedly
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
Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend); thicket from which one cannot escape; maze; getting lost; being unable to find a way out
spearflower (Ardisia japonica)
hiking through dense vegetation; pushing one's way through a thicket; bushwhacking
wild camellia (Camellia japonica); common camellia
yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff
Yabunouchi school of tea ceremony
woven mat tied around a plant to prevent damage from the weight of snow
bushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica)
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)
erect hedge parsley (Torilis japonica); Japanese hedge parsley; upright hedge parsley
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