The word MOMIJI meaning Autumn Foliage can be written with several combinations of Kanji and Kana in Japanese.
Most commonly it is written as a combination of 2 kanji meaning "red leaves" but also as a "kokuji NOT found in all dictionaries. I'm surprised Nelson does not include it when it does include other kokuji!
Kokuji are characters created n Japan and not used in China with a couple of exceptions that actually got borrowed back into Chinese.
Momiji sometimes gets translated as "maple" but can be used to describe autumn foliage and colros in general. Part of the reason for this seems to be the popularity of the Japanese "maple" Acer palmatum also known as KAEDE in art and probably some idiot who was not a botanist thinking oh maple tree!
Another example of this is the character FENG or FU Kaede used by both the Chinese and Japanese being translated as "maple" however the Chinese maple is what we call Liquidambar a tree with leaves and autumn coloring very similar to a maple!
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