Vocabulary

statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya)

back of the house

lux meter

presidential decree; presidential proclamation

Tsugaru dialect

Tsugaru (western region of Aomori Prefecture)

coming to the store

to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically

to engage in lively conversation

morning (person)

Kahlúa (coffee liqueur)

rare stone; special stone; strange stone

viewing stone; decorative stone; scholar's rock

idiophone

membranophone

chordophone

aerophone

electrophone

bonang (small gongs used in the Javanese gamelan)

clerk of court

duo (ancient Chinese bell with a clapper and a long handle)

bianzhong (ancient Chinese musical instrument; bronze bells set in a wooden frame, played with a mallet)

sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras)

small gong (used in gagaku)

Jew's harp

hurdy-gurdy

electric organ

ondes Martenot (electronic musical instrument)

quena (Andean flute)

Pleioblastus chino (species of bamboo grass)

bamboo arrow shaft

Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan)

culm (hollow stem of a grass)

dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)

Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes)

noh flute (transverse bamboo flute with seven holes; approx. 39 cm long)

sliver (strand of loose fibers)

thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters)

Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)