black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator
black suit; mourning clothes; black-suited staff member (e.g. in restaurant, sex establishment, etc.)
in deep black; in jet black
to dart one's eyes about; to be surprised; to be bewildered; to be confused; to be flustered
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
completely black; black from top to bottom; black from head to toe
dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened
blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered; blackened thing
thick fog (of suspicion); black veil of secrecy; covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
pupil and (dark) iris of the eye
black lustre; black luster
charred; burnt black; scorched black
dark clouds; black clouds
black-dyed leather; leather dyed in deep indigo; edible mushroom in the Thelephoraceae family
black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market
stage assistant dressed in black (in kabuki); stagehand; prompter; behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller
(being in) the black; surplus; black letter
large crowd; mass of people
black ground; black cloth
black spot; black dot; bull's-eye; middle dot; interpunct
black spot; black dot; mark indicating a defeat; loss; failure
black and white; right and wrong
black beard; type of noh mask with a black beard and protruding chin
large-pupilled; dark-eyed; having large irises
black lily (Fritillaria camtschatcensis); Kamchatka lily; Kamchatka fritillary
black hair; black-haired horse
black ball; black, round sigil; pupil; black candy
sunglasses; shady glasses; dark glasses
black rain; heavily polluted, radioactive rain sometimes following an atmospheric nuclear explosion (esp. that of Hiroshima)
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
black stone; black (go pieces)
black terracotta; black soil
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives
black belt (judo, karate, etc.)
black vinegar, usu. produced from unpolished rice; charred kelp or shiitake mushrooms ground and mixed with vinegar, used to dress raw fish and vegetables
black pine (Pinus thunbergii); Japanese black pine
black rotary-dial telephone
Kuroshio Current; Japan Current
black pepper (Piper nigrum)
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive)
black maple (Acer nigrum)
black tinge; black colour; black color; (arch.) black part; (arch.) dark spot
dark bay (horse coat color)
Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)
stout; dark beer; porter's ale
charring; something charred; traditional medicine made from charred ingredients
black person; darkie; well-tanned person; (wheat) smut; stagehand (in kabuki); prompter
moving into the black; becoming profitable
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata); Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)
to determine whether something is right or wrong; to make something clear; to settle a matter
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice; black rice
black mold (Aspergillus niger); black mould
Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra); crested black macaque; Sulawesi crested macaque; black ape
spangle (species of black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor)
blowfly (excluding bluebottles and greenbottles)
glossy black hair (young woman); raven black hair
pitch black; completely black
reddish brown tinged with black
to blacken (something); to make something black; to talk wrong into right
scheming; malicious; wicked; blackhearted
returning to profit; turnaround
black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
black-and-white television
black Lolita (fashion style)
formal, black kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono
thick black silk from Hachijo Island
blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)
black diamond; carbon; carbonado
Japanese arborvitae (Thuja standishii)
Kurozumi-kyo (sect of Shinto)
black sealing ink; black stamp pad
business insolvency due to liquidity problems
black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans)
black-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera)
meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine
blackshirts (Italian fascist group); squadristi; camicie nere
biotite; black or green mica
Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
blackbird (Turdus merula)
person who steals money from the workplace; embezzler; untrustworthy person
black goods; consumer electronics products
black cataract; amaurosis
red-black tree; self-balancing binary search tree
kurofuda; type of Japanese playing cards
Japanese wood ant (Formica japonica)
southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season
charring; something charred
blackshirts (Italian fascist group); squadristi; camicie nere
expert; professional; master; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
Rubus mesogaeus (species of blackberry)
black-eyed pea; black-eyed bean
squid chopped, salted and mixed in its own ink
to blacken; to become black
to blacken; to become black
crumbly black topsoil; porous hardened lava
cavolo nero (cultivar of Brassica oleracea acephala); lacinato kale; Tuscan kale; black kale
black registration plate with yellow characters (used for business use light motor vehicles)
black crushing; black clipping; loss of dark detail
black turtle bean; black bean
crumbly black topsoil (esp. from weathered volcanic ash); loam soil
dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out
black tassel hung above the northwest corner of the ring
blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)
sake lees with black or brown specks (from oxidation enzymes produced by the yeast)
gray bunting; grey bunting
people are formed by their surroundings; walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble; (lit.) that which is dyed with ink becomes black
black chestnut (horse coat color)
steel gray (horse coat color); steel grey
insisting one is right even after one has been proven wrong
Aspergillus niger; Aspergillus awamorii; black koji mold
smut fungus (Microbotryum violaceum)
Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)
Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis)
Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi); Ryukyu rabbit
sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus)
bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum); northern bilberry
Japanese carpenter ant (Camponotus japonicus)
black-footed cat (Felis nigripes)
smoky brown cockroach (Periplaneta fuliginosa); smokybrown cockroach
Vespula flaviceps (species of yellowjacket)
Eleocharis kuroguwai (species of spikerush); Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa)
Korean rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii); Schlegel's black rockfish
spotted scat (Scatophagus argus, species of Indo-Pacific scat which occurs in green and red morphs); green scat; red scat
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
American black bear (Ursus americanus)
wild carrot (Daucus carota); Queen Anne's lace
Alaska blueberry (Vaccinium ovalifolium); early blueberry; oval-leaf bilberry; oval-leaf blueberry; oval-leaf huckleberry
black mustard (Brassica nigra)
Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa)
copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus, only member of Carcharhinus found mostly at temperate latitudes); bronze whaler; narrowtooth shark
love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena); ragged lady; fennelflower; nigella
black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor
common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus); Atlantic bluefin tuna
copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus, only member of Carcharhinus found mostly at temperate latitudes); bronze whaler; narrowtooth shark
Central American cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti)
snake mackerel (Gempylus serpens)
blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea var. emphyllocalyx)
black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus); black-faced kangaroo; mallee kangaroo; sooty kangaroo
red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)
East Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii); black sea turtle
Caulerpa scalpelliformis (species of green alga)
blue trevally (Carangoides ferdau); banded trevally; barred trevally; Ferdau's trevally; Forskaal's jackfish
Bombus ignitus (species of bumblebee)
black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata)
Pyropia kurogii (species of red algae)
purple marshlocks (Comarum palustre); swamp cinquefoil; marsh cinquefoil
Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)
black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis)
black grouse (Tetrao tetrix); blackcock (male black grouse); greyhen (female black grouse)
Hodgson's bat (Myotis formosus); Bartel's myotis
black cow-tongue (species of tonguefish, Paraplagusia japonica)
kurogane holly (Ilex rotunda)
black lemur (Eulemur macaco)
silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis, species of circumtropical requiem shark)
parasitic jaeger; Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus); monk vulture; Eurasian black vulture; European black vulture
Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)
Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae); Ryukyu eyelid gecko
black sake (presented as an offering to the gods)
Kuroishi Station (Aomori)
Kurokawa Station (Nagoya)
Kurosawa Station (Yokote)