極楽鳥花

ごくらくちょうか ごくらくちょうはな

bird of paradise flower, Strelitzia reginae

極楽極楽

ごくらくごくらく

It's absolute heaven, It's sheer bliss

極楽

ごくらく

paradise

極楽鯊

ごくらくはぜ ゴクラクハゼ

barcheek goby (Rhinogobius giurinus)

極楽蜻蛉

ごくらくとんぼ

happy-go-lucky fellow, an easygoing and indifferent person, a pococurante

極楽往生

ごくらくおうじょう

rebirth in paradise, peaceful death

極楽浄土

ごくらくじょうど

sukhavati (amitabha's pure land)

楽楽

らくらく

comfortably, easily

極極

ごくごく

extremely, highly

鳥

とり

bird

楽

らく

comfort, ease

極

ごく きょく

climax, extreme, extremity, culmination, height, zenith, nadir

楽市楽座

らくいちらくざ

free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

聞いて極楽見て地獄

きいてごくらくみてじごく

A paradise on hearsay, a hell at sight

瑞鳥

ずいちょう

auspicious bird (i.e. crane)

夏鳥

なつどり なつとり

a bird of summer

文鳥

ぶんちょう

Java sparrow, Java rice finch (Lonchura oryzivora, Padda oryzivora)

漂鳥

ひょうちょう

wandering bird

飛鳥

ひちょう あすか

flying bird