Vocabulary

bikini model (usually teenage); pin-up girl

fruit fly (any insect of family Tephritidae)

Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata); medfly

melon fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae)

Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis)

tachina fly (any fly of family Tachinidae); tachinid

cucurbit leaf beetle (Aulacophora femoralis)

stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans)

woman who works in the sex industry

Thais bronni (species of muricid gastropod)

biting midge (any insect of family Ceratopogonidae); no-see-um

biting midge (any insect of family Ceratopogonidae); no-see-um

sugar cane; sugarcane

paradise across the ocean (folk belief of Okinawa and Amami)

red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

Ryukyu odd-tooth snake (Dinodon semicarinatum)

influx of Taiwanese pop culture (into Japan)

welcome

beauty; prettiness

portable ceramic sake jug (from Okinawa)

capsicum; chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; red pepper

Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum)

Chinese guger tree (Schima wallichii)

Nepal holly (Ilex integra)

Chinese guger tree (Schima wallichii)

clivia

organization of shrine parishioners in a hamlet; parish guild

cane sugar

seashore false bindweed (Calystegia soldanella)

beach morning glory (Ipomoea pes-caprae)

convolvulus

common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea)

Solanaceae (nightshade family of plants)

Japanese belladonna (Scopolia japonica)

grannyvine (species of morning glory, Ipomoea tricolor)

petunia

Buckleya lanceolata (species of parasitic deciduous shrub)

twin-flowering abelia (Abelia spathulata)

Quercus sessilifolia (species of oak)

Paris tetraphylla (flowering plant closely related to herb Paris)