Vocabulary

foam soap

oiri (small, spherical, colorful rice candies from Kagawa Prefecture, used as a topping on dessert)

eurythmy

that's true; that makes sense; you have a point

tea industry; tea production

entire prefecture

puncture; flat tyre (tire); blowout

slow puncture; slow leak

slow puncture; slow leak

harai goshi (judo); sweeping hip throw; hip sweep

ball-and-mallet game played during New Year's celebrations

bougie; probe

de novo mutation

pouring all one's efforts into a single issue (goal, etc.); focusing entirely on one objective; single-minded approach; concentrated all-out effort; targeted strike

radio pliers; needle-nose pliers; long-nose pliers

harihari nabe; whale meat and potherb mustard hot pot

captive

splashing; sloshing

Japanese wood poppy (Glaucidium palmatum)

Sieversia pentapetala (yellow and white rose species)

gold and silver chrysanthemum (Ajania pacifica)

bead lily (Clintonia udensis)

Japanese stream orchid (Epipactis thunbergii)

Viola sieboldii (violet species)

Lithospermum zollingeri (violet species)

Eupatorium glehnii (boneset species)

Viola vaginata (violet species)

herb-robert (Geranium robertianum); Robert's geranium

alpine azalea (Kalmia procumbens); trailing azalea

white leadtree (Leucaena leucocephala); white popinac; wild tamarind

green tree cricket (Truljalia hibinonis)

sickle-bearing bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata)

grey field-speedwell (Veronica polita)

Amanita caesareoides (edible mushroom species)

sulphur shelf (Laetiporus sulphureus); chicken-of-the-woods

brick cap (Hypholoma lateritium); chestnut mushroom

Jersey cow mushroom (Suillus bovinus); bovine bolete

taro variety cultivated in paddy fields

New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)

hardy yellow hibiscus (Hibiscus hamabo)