Vocabulary

Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

Machilus thunbergii (species of laurel)

Machilus thunbergii (species of laurel)

meal announcer (at a Zen monastery)

Indigofera pseudotinctoria (species of legume)

Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles)

Brassica campestris var. laciniifolia (variety of wild mustard)

young greens (of mizuna, Japanese mustard spinach, rape, etc.)

Monoplacophora (polyphyletic class of mollusks)

Solenogastres (subclass of small worm-like molluscs)

Japanese glass shrimp (Pasiphaea japonica)

Three Mountains of Yamato (Mt. Miminashi, Mt. Kagu, and Mt. Unebi)

quality goods; choice goods

using one's fingers as a comb; combing one's hand through one's hair

round-trip ticket (for a train, bus, etc.)

broad velvet shrimp (Metapenaeopsis lata)

office romance; office love affair

fluorescence microscope

fluorescent dye; fluorescent pigment; fluorochrome

fluorescent dye

fluorescein

iritis

iridocyclitis

insect radical; worm radical

vermiform process; vermiform appendix

entomophily

hydrophilous flower

appendectomy; appendisectomy; appendicectomy

Marsala (wine)

ASCII art

mimicry; impersonation

rice tax (Edo period)

feeling elated; being excited; high spirits

tension structure

Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

Edo-period rice tax (paid using an obsolete Chinese coinage)

dream journal; dream diary

vertebral canal stenosis

leaving (a light, TV, etc.) on; leaving engaged (e.g. a key in a lock)

soup or stew over which a beaten egg is poured before serving; egg-bound soup