Vocabulary

Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica)

Japanese common squid; Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)

golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta)

Japanese jack mackerel; Japanese horse mackerel (Trachurus japonicus)

pike (freshwater fish, Esox sp.)

drum; croaker (any fish of the family Sciaenidae)

trout

perch (freshwater fish, Perca sp.)

condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile)

fish balls; fish dumplings

desperation; self-abandonment

broadbanded thornyhead (Sebastolobus macrochir); broadfin thornyhead; kichiji rockfish

broadbanded thornyhead (Sebastolobus macrochir); broadfin thornyhead; kichiji rockfish

dried, smoked mackerel; shavings from dried, smoked mackerel

cyst

cyst

Japanese Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga japonica)

Douglas fir

common Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)

Oregon pine (Pseudotsuga menziesii); common Douglas fir

Epstein-Barr virus; EBV

staff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)

cutting apart; something that has been cut apart

taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)

saucer (for a teacup)

Sekimon Shingaku; Edo-period moral philosophy that blended Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings

tathata (the ultimate nature of all things)

incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)

enrolling in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school

sudden enlightenment

gradual enlightenment

Tusita (heaven, pure land)

being unable to see the (harvest) moon because of rain

the unobtainable (that which cannot be known)

limitless

changing; becoming

hijab; Muslim head covering for women

stamp album; stamp booklet

receipt journal

retiarius (type of gladiator); net fighter