stage assistant dressed in black (in kabuki); stagehand; prompter; behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller
Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)
pupil and (dark) iris of the eye
black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator
black tinge; black colour; black color; (arch.) black part; (arch.) dark spot
spangle (species of black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor)
black lily (Fritillaria camtschatcensis); Kamchatka lily; Kamchatka fritillary
black pine (Pinus thunbergii); Japanese black pine
black person; darkie; well-tanned person; (wheat) smut; stagehand (in kabuki); 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)
black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
Rubus mesogaeus (species of blackberry)
sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus)
black belt (judo, karate, etc.)
blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)
Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis)
black and white; right and wrong
black lustre; black luster
black terracotta; black soil
charring; something charred; traditional medicine made from charred ingredients
black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans)
Vespula flaviceps (species of yellowjacket)
Japanese carpenter ant (Camponotus japonicus)
black-footed cat (Felis nigripes)
smoky brown cockroach (Periplaneta fuliginosa); smokybrown cockroach
charred; burnt black; scorched black
black spot; black dot; bull's-eye; middle dot; interpunct
Japanese wood ant (Formica japonica)
southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
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
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.
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
large crowd; mass of people
black ground; black cloth
black beard; type of noh mask with a black beard and protruding chin
black ball; black, round sigil; pupil; black candy
black pepper (Piper nigrum)
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
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives
black stone; black (go pieces)
black rotary-dial telephone
black person; darkie; well-tanned person; (wheat) smut; stagehand (in kabuki); prompter
dark bay (horse coat color)
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive)
black maple (Acer nigrum)
stout; dark beer; porter's ale
hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata); Papenfussiella kuromo (species of brown algae)
black mold (Aspergillus niger); black mould
reddish brown tinged with black
thick black silk from Hachijo Island
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
black diamond; carbon; carbonado
black-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera)
black sealing ink; black stamp pad
biotite; black or green mica
meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine
person who steals money from the workplace; embezzler; untrustworthy person
black cataract; amaurosis
black goods; consumer electronics products
kurofuda; type of Japanese playing cards
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, only member of Carcharhinus found mostly at temperate latitudes); bronze whaler; narrowtooth shark
black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); 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
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 sake (presented as an offering to the gods)