Vocabulary

slipper lobster of genus Scyllarus (esp. species Scyllarus cultrifer)

dictionary of seasonal words (for haiku and haikai)

first young greens of the year

Shijimi clam caught during winter

warm sake with grated ginger (effective against colds)

dried salted salmon

soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

miso soup with natto

soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)

gods or demons that cause epidemics

adzuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

Christmas cake

duck meat stew (dish from Ishikawa prefecture)

pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)

soup made with salted or rice-bran-pickled fish, vegetables, and sometimes sake lees (Hokkaido local specialty dish)

chunk; lump; thick slice; cutting into chunks

miso soup with pork or chicken (originally boned chicken chunks) with daikon, carrots, great burdock or sweet potatoes; meat chowder

turnip miso soup

apple sold during the winter; winter apple

Crepidiastrum keiskeanum (species of plant in the daisy family)

tang cai (Brassica rapa var. toona)

winter vegetables; winter greens

custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice

boiled daikon (or turnip, etc.) eaten hot with miso

Welsh onion miso soup

salt pickling of a turnip or daikon, incl. leaves and stalk

shottsuru; salted and fermented fish sauce from Akita

pot dish with white flesh fish and shottsuru sauce (Akita regional dish)

rice gruel served in temples for ten-night memorial services

horse meat hotpot

Japanese tofu and vegetable chowder

Chinese-style vegetarian cuisine (popular in the Edo period)

type of stew, usu. fish or vegetables in a mild broth; fish grilled unseasoned and then simmered slowly in soy and mirin broth

fried finely minced daikon, great burdock, carrot and shiitake mushrooms wrapped with crumbled tofu in dried beancurd and deep-fried

entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen)

halting speech; stammering; (like) rain water (slowly) dripping off a horizontal board

vinegar

ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)

to gaze into the distance

being immersed in water; being drowned