蒲

Meaning

蒲 centers on tall, reed-like water plants: bullrushes, cattails, and similar flags that grow in wet places.

• 菖蒲あやめ

  iris (flower)

• 蒲鉾かまぼこ

  kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc.

• 蒲がま

  common cattail (Typha latifolia); broadleaf cattail; common bulrush; great reedmace

• 菖蒲しょうぶ

  sweet flag (Acorus calamus); calamus

• 蒲焼かばやき

  kabayaki; loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce

• 花菖蒲はなしょうぶ

  Japanese iris; blue flag; Iris ensata

• いずれ菖蒲か杜若いずれあやめかかきつばた

  (of a choice) one being as excellent as the other; both so beautiful it is hard to choose between

• オランダ菖蒲オランダあやめ

  gladiolus

• ドイツ菖蒲ドイツあやめ

  German iris (Iris germanica)

• 伊勢花菖蒲いせはなしょうぶ

  Iris ensata; Ise Japanese iris

• 六日の菖蒲むいかのあやめ

  something that comes too late to be useful; iris (blooming) on the 6th (i.e. one day too late for the Boy's Day celebration)

• 匂い菖蒲においしょうぶ

  fragrant iris; sweet flag; orris

• 坐り蒲団すわりふとん

  zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)

• 小蒲こがま

  Typha orientalis

• 座蒲ざふ

  round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

• 檜扇菖蒲ひおうぎあやめ

  Arctic iris (Iris setosa)

• 江戸花菖蒲えどはなしょうぶ

  Iris ensata; Edo Japanese iris

• 狸菖蒲たぬきおやめ

  wooly frogsmouth (Philydrum lanuginosum); wooly waterlily

• 白花蒲公英しろばなたんぽぽ

  Taraxacum albidum (species of white dandelion)

• 筋蒲鉾すじかまぼこ

  gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)

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