Vocabulary

to suspend between two points; to build (a bridge, etc.); to put up on something (e.g. legs up on table)

to polish up (on); to refine; to hone; to round out

bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)

shrubby lespedeza (Lespedeza bicolor)

Thunberg's lespedeza (Lespedeza thunbergii)

Lespedeza buergeri (species of bush clover)

leafy lespedeza (Lespedeza cyrtobotrya)

primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)

primrose

Lysimachia fortunei (species of loosestrife)

gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides)

common bistort (Persicaria bistorta)

Polygonum tenuicaule (species of knotweed)

Eusteralis yatabeana (species of plant in the mint family)

Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort)

maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)

bowman's root (Veronicastrum sibiricum); Culver's root

tiger's tail

Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife)

small eggplant

Lysimachia fortunei (species of loosestrife)

white bush clover

even

one house; the same house

the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter

the (cool) summer moon

swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion)

swaying (repeatedly, in a large, slow motion)

autumn dusk

Fuji dawn (species of violet, Viola mandshurica)

clashing waves; tides in narrow sea straits

frozen harbor

imperial carriage

battered child syndrome

to set (of the sun)

false anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla)

waves in narrow straits

paper mulberry

cloth (esp. cloth made from fibers of the paper mulberry tree)

to serve one's aim; to serve one's purpose