Vocabulary

smoked daikon pickles (famous product of Akita Prefecture)

charming, enticing smile; smile meant to catch a man's attention

cleanliness

familial spastic paraplegia

prefect; praepostor

to muffle one's voice; to speak (or sob, etc.) quietly

spastic paralysis

flaccid paralysis

prosthesis

glaucoma filtration surgery

infographic

inscription of scripture on stone

writing an inscription on a stone monument (e.g. before carving it)

unpromoted (piece)

ascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope

man-made water channel (e.g. round a castle); artificial trench; moat

farmer's tan

to feel constraint; to feel uneasy

kanji (as opposed to kana)

kanji

shift supervisor

Buddha figure carved on a rock face

geta; Japanese wooden clogs

smoked daikon pickles (famous product of Akita Prefecture)

root; source; origin; basis

sign; indication; omen

omen; fortune

agent; intermediary

to be nervous; to be sensitive; to worry; to be fussy; to be precise

strumming; thrumming; plunking; plonking

audio recording; sound recording

grip of a gun

westerly wind blowing around the time of the spring equinox

morning service

evening service

Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

spring rain; spring shower; spring drizzle

spring snow (usu. large snowflakes)