stage assistant dressed in black; stagehand; prompter; behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller
black cat; Yamato Transport (door-to-door delivery service company)
Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)
pupil and (dark) iris of the eye
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator
spangle (species of black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor)
black tinge; black colour; black color; (arch.) black part; (arch.) dark spot
black lily (Fritillaria camtschatcensis); Kamchatka lily; Kamchatka fritillary
black pine (Pinus thunbergii); Japanese black pine
black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
black person; darkie; well-tanned person; (wheat) smut; stagehand; prompter
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
Kuroshio Current; Japan Current
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)
Rubus mesogaeus (species of blackberry)
blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)
sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus)
black mouse; rat with black fur; deceitful employee; unfaithful servant; dark gray; dark grey
Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis)
pitch-black; jet-black; strongly tanned; deeply sunburnt; sooty; black with dirt
black and white; right and wrong
Vespula flaviceps (species of yellowjacket)
black lustre; black luster
black terracotta; black soil
charring; something charred; traditional medicine made from charred ingredients
purulent blood; blood from an open wound or sore
eastern reef heron (Egretta sacra); Pacific reef heron
black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans)
slip for regular business transactions
Japanese carpenter ant (Camponotus japonicus)
black-footed cat (Felis nigripes)
smoky brown cockroach (Periplaneta fuliginosa); smokybrown cockroach
charred; burnt black; scorched black
black beard; noh mask with a black beard and protruding chin
black spot; black dot; bull's-eye; middle dot; interpunct
blackhead; dark discoloration; blackening; (black or dark) tarnish
Japanese wood ant (Formica japonica)
southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata)
black suit; mourning clothes; black-suited staff member (e.g. in restaurant, sex establishment, etc.)
completely black; black from top to bottom; black from head to toe
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
thick fog (of suspicion); black veil of secrecy; covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered; blackened thing
black-dyed leather; leather dyed in deep indigo; edible mushroom in the Thelephoraceae family
dark clouds; black clouds
expert; professional; master; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
(being in) the black; surplus; black letter
black ground; black cloth
mass (of people); large crowd
black ball; black, round sigil; pupil; black candy
black stone; black (go pieces)
black pepper (Piper nigrum)
sunglasses; shady glasses; dark glasses
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
black rain; heavily polluted, radioactive rain sometimes following an atmospheric nuclear explosion (esp. that of Hiroshima)
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives
black rotary-dial telephone
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive)
black person; darkie; well-tanned person; (wheat) smut; stagehand; prompter
dark tea (e.g. Chinese pu'er tea); fermented tea
dark bay (horse coat color)
black maple (Acer nigrum)
black lacquer; black-lacquered object
stout; dark beer; porter's ale
tanned gyaru; gyaru fashion subculture style characterized by deeply-tanned or darkened skin
hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata); Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)
black borders; mourning borders (e.g. on an obituary)
black mold (Aspergillus niger); black mould
eunicid worm (Marphysa sanguinea); lugworm (Arenicola brasiliensis); black-colored insect (e.g. stag beetles)
reddish brown tinged with black
formal, black kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono
black Lolita (fashion style)
thick black silk from Hachijo Island
black diamond; carbon; carbonado
black sealing ink; black stamp pad
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
kurofuda (type of Japanese playing cards)
biotite; black or green mica
black goods; consumer electronics products
person who steals money from the workplace; embezzler; untrustworthy person
black cataract; amaurosis
Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)
charring; something charred
blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)
black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
black cow-tongue (species of tonguefish, Paraplagusia japonica)
parasitic jaeger; Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis)
black grouse (Tetrao tetrix); blackcock (male black grouse); greyhen (female black grouse)
Bombus ignitus (species of bumblebee)
red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)
Caulerpa scalpelliformis (species of green alga)
tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus); bronze whaler; narrowtooth shark
black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii); Beccari's monitor
copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus, only member of Carcharhinus found mostly at temperate latitudes); bronze whaler; narrowtooth shark
Central American cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti)
wild carrot (Daucus carota); Queen Anne's lace
black lemur (Eulemur macaco)
East Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii); black sea turtle
cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus); monk vulture; Eurasian black vulture; European black vulture
Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae); Ryukyu eyelid gecko
Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)
Hodgson's bat (Myotis formosus); Bartel's myotis
snake mackerel (Gempylus serpens)
blue trevally (Carangoides ferdau); banded trevally; barred trevally; Ferdau's trevally; Forskaal's jackfish
western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus); black-faced kangaroo; mallee kangaroo; sooty kangaroo
Pyropia kurogii (species of red algae)
cavolo nero (cultivar of Brassica oleracea acephala); lacinato kale; Tuscan kale; black kale
love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena); ragged lady; fennelflower; nigella
slender-necked sea snake (Hydrophis melanocephalus)
blackening brittlegill (Russula nigricans)
black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus); Oriental white ibis
paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata); paradise duck; pūtangitangi
black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes); American polecat; prairie dog hunter
black-and-white paper twine (on condolence offerings)
squid chopped, salted and mixed in its own ink
dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out
crumbly black topsoil; porous hardened lava
crumbly black topsoil; porous hardened lava
black chestnut (horse coat color)
steel gray (horse coat color); steel grey
Aspergillus niger; Aspergillus awamorii; black koji mold
sake lees with black or brown specks (from oxidation enzymes produced by the yeast)
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
black knight; masterless knight (esp. one lacking heraldry)
Black Rain (1966 novel by Ibuse Masuji)
The Black Cat (1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe)