1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis II. 220 Japan Allspice.

1866 A. Black in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 270 The Japan Allspice is a much-branched shrub, and generally treated as a wall-plant in gardens.

1847 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 73 4341 (heading) Japan Anemone.

1870 W. Robinson Wild Garden i. 28 The Japan Anemone and A. hybrida..grow so strongly that they will take care of themselves.

1882 Garden 1 Apr. 213/2 Japan Anemones..seem here to enjoy both the shelter and partial shade.

1908 G. Jekyll Colour in Flower Garden ix. 81 The pink colourings are the wide-headed Sedum spectabile, pink Japan Anemone and a few pale pink Gladioli.

1882 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 4) ii. iii. 642 Commercial camphor is derived entirely from the island of Formosa and Japan,..the latter [being known] as Japan or Dutch Camphor.

1852 R. Fortune Journey to Tea Countries China xviii. 304 The beautiful Cryptomeria, or Japan cedar.

1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. Japan Cedar, Cryptomeria.

1900 M. Thorn in W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening xi. 488 C. japonica (Japan Cedar) is a charming tree.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Lespedeza,..‘Hoop-koop’-plant, Japan Clover.

1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) 263 Japan current, that branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific which trends northward along the Japan coasts.

1885 Sir J. Murray in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 118/2 The Kuro-Siwo or Japan current—wholly a warm oceanic river during the S.E. monsoon similar to the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic.

1936 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas (ed. 2) x. 231 The Japan Current or ‘Kuro Shiwo’ corresponding to our Gulf Stream.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 107 Japan Earth..is very austere upon the Palate.

1807 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 209 A..strip of card, discoloured with japan ink.

1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Japan Ink, a superior kind of black writing ink, generally glossy when dry.

1835 W. J. Hooker Compan. Bot. Mag. 1 268/1 The so much celebrated Japan lacquer or varnish.

1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 466 The valuable black hard varnish called Japan Lacquer, is obtained from Stagmaria verniciflua in the Indian archipelago.

1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. xx. 535 Japan Lacquer, so much used by the Japanese in the manufacture of many wares, is obtained..from Rhus vernicifera, and probably other species.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 241/1 Japan Lacquer-, or Varnish-, Tree.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 70/2 Rhus vermicifera is the Japan lacquer or varnish-tree.

1813 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 38 1591 (heading) White one-flowered Japan Lily.

1854 C. M. Yonge Heartsease I. iv. 56 You should go and look at the Japan lilies.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 727/2 Japan Medlar, Eriobotyra japonica.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 249 Japan-moths.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. ii. v. 339 Nothing gave him such content as two Bookes of Iapon paper, smooth and hard bound in Europæan manner.

1914 Photo-Era Feb. 102/1 There are certain tricks to produce a soft print from a sharp negative, one of which is to put a piece of Japan paper between the plate and the sensitive paper in the printing-frame.

1974 Country Life 17 Jan. 75/1 The exquisite Le Bain of 1905, a dry point (an impression from the edition of 27 or 29 on Japan paper).

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1240 The fruits..of X[anthoxylon] piperitum, a Japanese species, are called Japan-pepper.

1914 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles II. 692 Z[anthoxylum] piperitum, de Candolle. Japan Pepper... The seeds when ground are used by the Japanese as pepper.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 197 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV For..easy propagation, and ample foliage of shining deep-green color, there is no plant superior to the Japan privet (Ligustrum Japonicum).

1850 W. Howitt Year-bk. of Country 24 In gardens..come forth the vernal crocus, various hellebores, the Japan quince.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 213/1 Buds form on the roots, and may be used for purposes of propagation, as in the Japan quince.

1916 L. H. Bailey Pruning-man. 222 Chænomeles japonica (Japan quince).

1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis II. 460 Camellia... Japan Rose.

1793 B. Edwards Hist. Brit. Colonies W. Indies I. 204 Camellia japonica, Japan Rose.

1895 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) 732/1 It [Rosa acicularis] has a showy fruit, which differs from that of the Japan Rose, for, instead of being roundish and smooth, it is long and Pear-shaped.

1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan I. i. ix. 114 The Urusi or Varnish-Tree is another of the noblest and most useful Trees of this country.]

1789 J. Belknap Let. 13 Mar. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 252 I have sent for the seeds of the Japan varnish tree.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 147/2 The Japan varnish of Kæmpfer and Thunberg is Rhus vernix.

1865 J. Coldstream in J. H. Balfour Biogr. ii. 23 An avenue of the Ailanthus, or Japan varnish.

1889 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 2) 788/2 Others in cultivation..include R[hus] vermicifera, or Japan Varnish Tree.

1859 L. Oliphant Narr. Earl of Elgin's Mission China & Japan II. 257 Hitherto the most successful cargo brought to this country from Japan has been one of Japanese wax. Mr. Simmonds..gives the following account of Japan wax:—‘Rhus succedanea, the species which furnishes the Japan wax, has long been grown in our greenhouses, having been introduced from China nearly a century ago.’

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. s.v. Rhus The Japan wax, which is occasionally imported into this country.

1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 275 Myrtle wax..which, like Japan wax, is rather a fat than a true wax.

1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 201/2 Japan wax is sometimes called vegetable wax.