Vocabulary

Japanese wing nut (Pterocarya rhoifolia)

heartleaf hornbeam (Carpinus cordata)

Manchurian ash (Fraxinus mandshurica var. japonica)

Japanese ash; Manchurian ash

Korean spindletree (Euonymus oxyphyllus)

southern sky

fragrant styrax (Styrax obassia)

quercus myrsinifolia; bamboo Leaved Oak; quercus myrsinaefolia

painted maple (Acer mono)

tall stewartia (Stewartia monadelpha); hime-syara stewartia

Asian melastome (Melastoma candidum)

Japanese snowbell (Styrax japonicus)

Japanese clethra; tree clethra; clethra barbinervis

Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)

malus tschonoskii; white angel

white angel; malus tschonoskii

Japanese flowering ash (Fraxinus sieboldiana)

Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech

kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa); Japanese flowering dogwood

loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora); akashide

linden arrowwood (Viburnum dilatatum); Japanese bush cranberry

Japanese sumac (Rhus trichocarpa)

Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)

Japanese zelkova (Zelkova serrata)

Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica)

forked viburnum (Viburnum furcatum); scarlet leaved viburnum

Gamblea innovans (species of deciduous tree)

Asian poison ivy (Rhus ambigua)

Alangium platanifolium var. trilobum

paper sumo; children's game of sumo played with paper cutouts of wrestlers

to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to flicker

stibnite; antimonite

short (in height); stumpy; tiny

gasping for breath; puffing and panting; wheezing

outspoken; forthright; frank; direct

spinal reflex

postal privatisation (privatisation of Japan Post)

noble (birth); royal; august; exalted; high-born; of high rank

to clamour; to crowd; to jostle

not non-existent; not completely lacking; there is some; certainly existent