丹

painstaking

Christianity (in feudal Japan)

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)

working earnestly

fool

Bhutan

point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)

sincerity

large padded kimono

Ryōtan (region in Kansai corresponding to the two historical provinces of Tanba and Tango)

Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)

writing an inscription on a stone monument (e.g. before carving it)

Tanshū (the two former provinces of Tanba and Tango)

Isetan (department store)

red flower

chief trader (of the Dutch trading post at Dejima)

Khitan script

red

red

red and blue

greenish-black earth

Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)

Morishita Jintan Co., Ltd.

Khitan people

Grateloupia elliptica (species of red alga)

red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium)

Kara Khitai (Central Asian Khitan empire; 1132-1211)

tan-e

pit of the stomach

to take pains (doing something)

elixir (of life)

Itami City Museum of Art

type of smelling salts sold in the late Edo period

cinnabar

Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties)

Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)

art of making elixirs (e.g. in Chinese trad. medicine)

red

erysipelas

moss-rose purslane (Portulaca grandiflora)

red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)

Peucedanum japonicum (species of umbellifer with edible leaves)

orange color traditionally worn by the crown prince

Asian melastome (Melastoma candidum)

botan shrimp (Pandalus nipponensis)

painting red

cinnabar

ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

golden osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans)

elixir of life (prepared from cinnabar in ancient China)

light crimson

red lead

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)

red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)

cockatoo

peony root bark

swine erysipelas

any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry

large snowflakes

kabuki brush (type of powder brush)

Sudan

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)

Order of the Precious Crown, Peony

princess-flower (Tibouchina urvilleana)

dahlia

red and green

beautiful appearance of a woman

variety of Japanese plum

flower urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus)

lovebird (esp. Lilian's lovebird, Agapornis lilianae)