willow

words containing 柳

• 柳やなぎ willow (any tree of genus Salix)
• 柳りゅう Chinese "Willow" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
• 青柳あおやぎ green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
• 柳眉りゅうび beautiful eyebrows, lovely eyebrows
• 川柳せんりゅう senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
• 川柳かわやなぎ riverside willow (esp. rosegold pussy willow, Salix gracilistyla)
• 川柳かわやぎ riverside willow
• 柳やなぎに風かぜ handling things without making waves, taking in one's stride
• 柳腰やなぎごし slim waist, slender figure, willowy figure
• 柳葉やないば willow-leaf arrowhead
• 花柳かりゅう red-light district
• 花柳はなやぎ Hanayagi school of Japanese dancing
• 花柳界かりゅうかい red-light district, pleasure quarters, world of the geisha, demimonde
• 柳行李やなぎごうり wicker trunk
• 柳刃包丁やなぎばぼうちょう kitchen knife for sashimi
• しだれ柳やなぎ weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
• 雪柳ゆきやなぎ Thunberg spirea (Spiraea thunbergii)
• 猫柳ねこやなぎ rosegold pussy willow (Salix gracilistyla)
• 花柳街かりゅうがい red-light district
• 蒲柳ほりゅうの質しつ delicate health, fragile health
• 柳川鍋やながわなべ loach stew, loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root
• 柳刃やなぎば kitchen knife for sashimi
• 柳条りゅうじょう willow twig
• 花柳病かりゅうびょう sexually transmitted disease, social disease
• 柳樽やなぎだる lacquered sake barrel (often used at weddings and other celebratory events)
• 柳緑花紅りゅうりょくかこう red blossoms and green willows, beautiful scenery of spring, natural beauty, beauty of nature
• 蒲柳ほりゅう purple willow
• 柳やなぎに雪折ゆきおれなし the soft may prove more durable than the hard, willow trees don't break under the weight of snow
• 柳暗花明りゅうあんかめい beautiful scenery of spring
• 糸柳いとやなぎ weeping willow
• 柳葉魚ししゃも shishamo smelt (Spirinchus lanceolatus)
• 風かぜに柳やなぎ without making waves, softly, (like) a willow in the wind
• 箱柳はこやなぎ Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)
• 柳科ヤナギか Salicaceae (plant family containing willows, poplars, aspens, etc.)
• 柳橋新誌りゅうきょうしんし Ryūkyō Shinshi (book by Narushima Ryūhoku concerning the Yanigabashi pleasure quarters)
• 道柳みちやなぎ knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare)