Vocabulary

cloth tie-dyed with a scarlet red dappled pattern

lost item; lost article

choked voice; broken voice; emotional voice

plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)

lighting a torch; lighting up a lamp

striped Hachijo silk cloth

plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (sometimes striped)

garden entrance

deer; fawn

pattern of white spots; dapples

game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs

placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow

damaged spot; damaged part

tall fence

being raised in a town

Edo-era meat vendor (esp. of large game, e.g. deer, boar); butcher

(way of) spending money

long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path)

ladder

someone (e.g. a woman) who is out of one's league; something beyond one's means

doll used as part of a street performance (Edo period)

Litsea coreana (species of tree in the laurel family)

evening twilight

faint reflection of light upon the water in the dark

morning frost

cycling track; cycling road

suspicions; guess

self-hosting

party position; party post

reservoir; water-storage facility

seeing for the first time; first sight

arrow collector (at an archery range); collecting arrows

dried sea-cucumber ovaries

Edo-era meat vendor (esp. of large game, e.g. deer, boar); butcher

deepest snow; maximum snowfall; maximum depth of snow cover

dried sea-cucumber ovaries

sister-city relationship

major agricultural country; agricultural power; agripower

ambulacral zone (on echinoderms); ambulacrum (on echinoderms)

load on one's chest