coach (horse-drawn); carriage; wagon; cart
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop; knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)
to get on a horse; to mount a horse
curious onlookers; rubbernecks
horseback riding; sitting astride; straddling
white horse; unrefined sake
post horse; mounted courier; express messenger on horseback; fast horse; swift horse
person of doubtful origin; suspicious stranger
stallion brought close to a mare to test her readiness to mate; stalking horse; spoiler
horse's back; (mountain) ridge; arête; road along a ridge
votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse
restive horse; unmanageable person (esp. a woman); shrew; stubborn tomboy
cart-horse; work-horse; doing something wholeheartedly; doing with one's undivided attention
to get on well (with someone); (lit.) to be a good match with one's horse
restive horse; runaway horse; out of control horse
person of doubtful origin
curious personality; nosiness; curiosity; rubbernecking
minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse); (lit.) horse's legs
packhorse; workhorse; hack
to suffer the consequences for interfering in a couple's relationship; (lit.) to be kicked by a horse
small horse; pony; foal; colt; filly
studhorse; stallion; breeding horse
seahorse; sea horse; hippocampus; walrus
stilts (for walking); (arch.) hobby horse
battle standard raised next to the horse of a commander
to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly; to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)
horseface; long thin face; black scraper (fish)
to side with the winner; to ride (someone's) coattails; to get on the bandwagon
to be shrewd; to be sharp; to keep your wits about you; (lit.) to pluck out the eye of a live horse
owner of a horse (esp. racehorse); registered owner (of a racehorse)
long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path)
wild horse; pastured horse; grazing horse
ornately decorated horse used in processions of dignitaries; horse led by a rope
preaching to the deaf; (lit.) chanting the nembutsu into a horse's ear
mirrored version of the kanji character "uma" (usu. depicted on a shogi piece; considered auspicious)
untamed horse; unbroken horse; wild horse; bronco
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
bucking horse; unmanageable horse
the future is unpredictable; inscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate
person that raises horses; horse breeder
inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable
hung like a horse; big-dicked
buttocks of a horse being ridden or followed; blindly following suit
red horse; menstruation; fire; conflagration
fodder (for horses or cows); hay; feed
horses owned; horse owned
(game of) leapfrog; leapfrogging
do not shoot straight for the top; he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin; (lit.) if you want to shoot the general, first shoot his horse
point along a (mountain) pass beyond which a horse cannot travel
bill collector for the night's entertainment; followers
horse botfly (Gasterophilus intestinalis)
runaway horse; riderless horse
autumn comes with harvest time and clear weather; (lit.) autumn with the sky clear and blue, and horses growing stout
horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows
traditional horse-racing; originally two horses head-to-head or ten at a time, esp. May 5 event at Kamigamo shrine
riding horse; saddle horse
loading a horse with passengers or baggage; driving a horse into a pen; Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)
bill collector for the night's entertainment; followers
points wagered by a spectator to match the winnings and losses of a particular player
one will inevitably suffer the consequences for interfering in a couple's relationship; (lit.) may whoever interferes with another's love affair be kicked by a horse and die
camel cricket (Diestrammena apicalis); camelback cricket; cave cricket; spider cricket
betting ticket; betting slip
Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed); kisouma
horse doctor; horse veterinarian
Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture); small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate Prefecture)
preaching to the deaf; (lit.) wind (blowing) into a horse's ear
posted guide with information about each horse (name, pedigree, past performance, etc.)
kanji "horse" radical at left
horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
washtub for horses; horse tub
wild horse; unmanageable horse
riding a horse so skillfully that it appears as if man and horse have become one
dead horse; stupid horse; useless horse; crowbait
birds of a feather flock together; horses work best together; don't mix your horses with your cows
birds of a feather flock together; don't mix your horses with your cows
trust the judgement of the experienced; (lit.) an old horse won't forget the way
horse-carrying military ship
to go from (using, etc.) something bad to something good; (lit.) to change (from riding) a cow to (riding) a horse
toothed medick (Medicago polymorpha); hairy medick; bur clover; white clover (Trifolium repens)
equine influenza; horse flu
you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; (lit.) judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him
you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; (lit.) try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him
to rain on one side only (and leave the other side dry)
low geta (once used when cleaning the garden)
even an unruly horse can be tamed
Equuleus (constellation); the Colt
Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii); Dzungarian horse
to deliberately misinterpret; to invert right and wrong; (lit.) to point to a deer and call it a horse
learn to crawl before you learn to walk; (lit.) until you ride a horse, ride a cow
Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)
broodmare (horse breeding)
alfalfa (Medicago sativa); alphalpha; lucerne
buttercup (Ranunculus japonicus)
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
birthwort (Aristolochia debilis)
epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus spp.)
great seahorse (Hippocampus kelloggi); Kellogg's seahorse; offshore seahorse
black scraper fish (Novodon modestus)
Shirouma shrew (Sorex hosonoi shiroumanus)
mountain zebra (Equus zebra)
Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii); Dzungarian horse
Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi)
Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi)
plains zebra (Equus quagga)
Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii)
Whitmania pigra (species of leech)
thrips (any insect of order Thysanoptera); thrip
black medic (Medicago lupulina); black hay; black nonsuch; blackweed
horse that bites people; biter
building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds)
yearling; one-year-old horse; first menstruation; sanitary napkin used during first menstruation
horse armor; horse armour