Vocabulary

night-scented lily (Alocasia odora); giant upright elephant ear

rice sprinkled with red perilla

tea rolled by hand over a dryer (old production method); hand-rolled tea

steaming

rolling freshly picked tea-leaves; crushing tea

aracha; unprocessed tea; unrefined tea; crude tea

tamaryokucha; Japanese green tea similar to gunpowder tea

guricha; Japanese green tea similar to gunpowder tea

rain that stops in the morning

border between two villages

ogeima; large knight's move

Cercidiphyllum magnificum (species of katsura)

sparse mist; scattered mist

next work (book, film, etc.); next title; next release

agricultural land; farmland

saw palmetto (Serenoa repens)

common bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); blue whortleberry; European blueberry; bilberry; whortleberry; blueberry

looking for love; searching for a lover

looking for love; searching for a lover

lifting (heavy load)

Yoshin-ryu; martial art tradition founded in the Edo period

prickly juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus); prickly cedar; cade juniper; cade; sharp ceda

Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum)

flaky juniper (Juniperus squamata); Himalayan juniper

common juniper (Juniperus communis)

Alaska blueberry (Vaccinium ovalifolium); early blueberry; oval-leaf bilberry; oval-leaf blueberry; oval-leaf huckleberry

mooring line; mooring rope; painter

keiskei fetterbush (Leucothoe keiskei); doghobble; dog hobble

Aleutian mountainheath (Phyllodoce aleutica)

mountain heath (Phyllodoce nipponica)

Gaultheria adenothrix (alpine shrublet in the Ericaceae family)

alpenrose (Rhododendron ferrugineum); snow-rose; rusty-leaved alpenrose

leaf, branch with leaves, or paper placed under a serving dish or offering

cutting ingredients into decorative shapes (e.g. vegetables)

metal fiber (esp. used in reinforced concrete); steel fiber

rough deposits; rough surface; roughness

bear meat

precautions against earthquake; anti-earthquake measures; antiearthquake procedures; earthquake countermeasures

differentiation

Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown