diff --git a/src/core/services/tokenizer.test.ts b/src/core/services/tokenizer.test.ts
index c69d277..707e4f6 100644
--- a/src/core/services/tokenizer.test.ts
+++ b/src/core/services/tokenizer.test.ts
@@ -2103,6 +2103,48 @@ test('createTokenizerDepsRuntime checks MeCab availability before first tokenize
   assert.equal(second?.[0]?.surface, '仮面');
 });
 
+test('createTokenizerDepsRuntime skips known-word lookup for MeCab POS enrichment tokens', async () => {
+  let knownWordCalls = 0;
+
+  const deps = createTokenizerDepsRuntime({
+    getYomitanExt: () => null,
+    getYomitanParserWindow: () => null,
+    setYomitanParserWindow: () => {},
+    getYomitanParserReadyPromise: () => null,
+    setYomitanParserReadyPromise: () => {},
+    getYomitanParserInitPromise: () => null,
+    setYomitanParserInitPromise: () => {},
+    isKnownWord: () => {
+      knownWordCalls += 1;
+      return true;
+    },
+    getKnownWordMatchMode: () => 'headword',
+    getJlptLevel: () => null,
+    getMecabTokenizer: () => ({
+      tokenize: async () => [
+        {
+          word: '仮面',
+          partOfSpeech: PartOfSpeech.noun,
+          pos1: '名詞',
+          pos2: '一般',
+          pos3: '',
+          pos4: '',
+          inflectionType: '',
+          inflectionForm: '',
+          headword: '仮面',
+          katakanaReading: 'カメン',
+          pronunciation: 'カメン',
+        },
+      ],
+    }),
+  });
+
+  const tokens = await deps.tokenizeWithMecab('仮面');
+
+  assert.equal(knownWordCalls, 0);
+  assert.equal(tokens?.[0]?.isKnown, false);
+});
+
 test('tokenizeSubtitle uses async MeCab enrichment override when provided', async () => {
   const result = await tokenizeSubtitle(
     '猫',
diff --git a/src/core/services/tokenizer.ts b/src/core/services/tokenizer.ts
index 210e8f7..c808642 100644
--- a/src/core/services/tokenizer.ts
+++ b/src/core/services/tokenizer.ts
@@ -211,8 +211,7 @@ export function createTokenizerDepsRuntime(
         return null;
       }
 
-      const isKnownWordLookup = options.getNPlusOneEnabled?.() === false ? () => false : options.isKnownWord;
-      return mergeTokens(rawTokens, isKnownWordLookup, options.getKnownWordMatchMode());
+      return mergeTokens(rawTokens, options.isKnownWord, options.getKnownWordMatchMode(), false);
     },
     enrichTokensWithMecab: async (tokens, mecabTokens) =>
       enrichTokensWithMecabAsync(tokens, mecabTokens),
diff --git a/src/token-merger.ts b/src/token-merger.ts
index f333b01..f26470d 100644
--- a/src/token-merger.ts
+++ b/src/token-merger.ts
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ export function mergeTokens(
   tokens: Token[],
   isKnownWord: (text: string) => boolean = () => false,
   knownWordMatchMode: 'headword' | 'surface' = 'headword',
+  shouldLookupKnownWords = true,
 ): MergedToken[] {
   if (!tokens || tokens.length === 0) {
     return [];
@@ -176,6 +177,12 @@ export function mergeTokens(
   const result: MergedToken[] = [];
   let charOffset = 0;
   let lastStandaloneToken: Token | null = null;
+  const resolveKnownMatch = (text: string | undefined): boolean => {
+    if (!shouldLookupKnownWords || !text) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    return isKnownWord(text);
+  };
 
   for (const token of tokens) {
     const start = charOffset;
@@ -189,7 +196,6 @@ export function mergeTokens(
     }
 
     const tokenReading = ignoreReading(token) ? '' : token.katakanaReading || token.word;
-
     if (shouldMergeToken && result.length > 0) {
       const prev = result.pop()!;
       const mergedHeadword = prev.headword;
@@ -210,7 +216,7 @@ export function mergeTokens(
         pos2: prev.pos2 ?? token.pos2,
         pos3: prev.pos3 ?? token.pos3,
         isMerged: true,
-        isKnown: headwordForKnownMatch ? isKnownWord(headwordForKnownMatch) : false,
+        isKnown: resolveKnownMatch(headwordForKnownMatch),
         isNPlusOneTarget: false,
       });
     } else {
@@ -231,7 +237,7 @@ export function mergeTokens(
         pos2: token.pos2,
         pos3: token.pos3,
         isMerged: false,
-        isKnown: headwordForKnownMatch ? isKnownWord(headwordForKnownMatch) : false,
+        isKnown: resolveKnownMatch(headwordForKnownMatch),
         isNPlusOneTarget: false,
       });
     }