Vocabulary

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

stibnite; antimonite

spinal reflex

postal privatisation (privatisation of Japan Post)

border guard

remnants of a defeated army

guard (soldier)

injured soldier

round, wooden container for cooked rice

hacksaw; bow saw

moose (Alces alces); elk

staggered terms (applied to corporate directors as a defensive measure against hostile takeovers)

large penis

pounding mochi

human toilet; promiscuous woman