Vocabulary

Buna; brand-name synthetic rubber

Chamaecyparis obtusa var. breviramea (ornamental variety of hinoki cypress)

ishiru; ishiri; fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; specialty of the Noto Peninsula

good taste (food); tasty food

empress; queen

prince consort

food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table)

strengthening the stomach; strong stomach

stomachic; stomach medicine

to visit someone; to call on

meal

thin leather with gold patterns (introduced from Europe during the Edo period)

virtue gained by practising Buddhism

country

various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance)

place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine

young emperor

young person; young servant

young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor

girl-in-training (e.g. a geisha-in-training or a girl who performs miscellaneous tasks in a brothel)

imperial coronation crown

being at home

leather strap put across a horse's neck

glorious achievement

face-to-face conversation; interview

medium; sorceress

performing without a mask

dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period)

type of imperial banquet held during the Heian period and later

female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow

necromancer (esp. a blind female in northeastern Honshu); medium; shaman

Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health)

coconsciousness

the real world; reality; the actual world

blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific)

slightly crushed sweetened red-bean paste

chunky mochi made with half-polished rice, stuffed with red bean paste

man who doesn't adhere to traditional masculinity, esp. with women and careers; herbivore man

snail

center versus periphery theory