Vocabulary

dried, smoked mackerel; shavings from dried, smoked mackerel

cyst

cyst

Japanese Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga japonica)

Douglas fir

common Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)

Oregon pine (Pseudotsuga menziesii); common Douglas fir

a good time to view the Moon (i.e. when it is full)

Epstein-Barr virus; EBV

staff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)

cutting apart; something that has been cut apart

to go to sea; to become a sailor

taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)

saucer (for a teacup)

Sekimon Shingaku; Edo-period moral philosophy that blended Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings

tathata (the ultimate nature of all things)

incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)

enrolling in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school

sudden enlightenment

gradual enlightenment

Tusita (heaven, pure land)

being unable to see the (harvest) moon because of rain

the unobtainable (that which cannot be known)

limitless

changing; becoming

to be answerable (for); to take the blame

hijab; Muslim head covering for women

stamp album; stamp booklet

receipt journal

warmly; cordially; with tender care

retiarius (type of gladiator); net fighter

ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

Anna's woodpecker (Calypte anna)

Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)

yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)

olivaceous piculet (species of bird, Picumnus olivaceus)

northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

diffuser; air supply outlet in air-conditioning system

Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salmar)