Vocabulary

ballade

ballad

green leaves

kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

cabbage

kohlrabi

Brussels sprout

access lanes (e.g. on a freeway); service road; bypass

request for money; touch

skimming (a book, etc.)

box culvert

underwater tunnel construction by sinking prefabricated box culverts

real hair; one's own hair

bent back; prone posture

lacking in prudence; lacking in judgement

somehow; somewhat; seemingly

applicant

applicant

moxibustion

electric acoustic guitar

fool; twit; idiot; bird-brain

adjusted value; adjusted price

admonishment; warning

protective household deity in Tōhoku, appearing as a red-faced child spirit with bobbed hair

ridge-end tile with the figure of a shachihoko (e.g. on a castle)

typically Japanese face

typically Caucasian face

ninja art of water-escape

ninja art of water-escape

stink of blood or meat

White's thrush (Zoothera dauma); scaly thrush

White's thrush (Zoothera dauma)

nekomata; fork-tailed cat yōkai

pachinko parlor; pachinko hall

Pu'er tea; Pu-erh tea

one-eyed mountain spirit

snow child (type of winter spirit)

Yama, judge of the afterlife

rope weapon with a sickle on one end and a ring on the other

clione (small floating sea slug of the genus Clione, esp. of species Clione limacina); naked sea butterfly; sea angel