鏑

かぶら

turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired)

八目

やつめ

eighth (place, position, etc.)

岡目八目

おかめはちもく

bystander's vantage point, outsider's better grasp of the situation

鏑矢

かぶらや

arrow to which is attached a turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn, whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle

目八分

めはちぶん めはちぶ

below eye level

八分目

はちぶめ はちぶんめ

eight-tenths

シベリア八目

シベリアやつめ シベリアヤツメ

Siberian brook lamprey (Lethenteron kessleri), Siberian lamprey

川八目

かわやつめ カワヤツメ

Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum)

砂八目

すなやつめ スナヤツメ

Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri), sand lamprey (species found in the Northwest Pacific)

袋八目

ふくろやつめ フクロヤツメ

pouched lamprey (Geotria australis), wide-mouthed lamprey

八つ目鰻

やつめうなぎ ヤツメウナギ やっつめうなぎ

lamprey, lamprey eel

腹八分目

はらはちぶんめ

being moderate in eating, stopping short of stuffing oneself

八十日目

やっとかめ

a long time (since the last time), it's been a while (since I last saw, mailed, etc., you)

流鏑馬

やぶさめ

horseback archery

鳴り鏑

arrow with a whistle attached; whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle

八八

two eights

八八花

はちはちばな

standard hanafuda pattern (orig. used to play hachi-hachi)

八

はち や

eight; eighth

八十八夜

はちじゅうはちや

eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring