Vocabulary

percussion instrument made of small pieces wood strung together

paiban (clapper made from several flat pieces of wood)

basin; tub

horse trough

fodder (for horses or cows); hay; feed

sake cask; sake tun

defamation; libel; calumny; slander

plasmon resonance

plasmon (quasiparticle resulting from the quantization of plasma oscillations)

sort; sorting

Okinawan fixed form poetry

history of civilization

different form; different shape

gusset

old English

Middle English

employment advertisement

minitruck; light truck; small truck; light pickup

vegetables high in beta-carotene

vegetables not high in beta-carotene

merchandise certificate

laptop (computer); notebook (computer)

secondary email

secondary email

negative form

thread sealing tape; plumber's tape

soft rice (cooked in a pot)

eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii)

loss of virginity (of a female); defloration; deflowering

hazard prevention

zhi (large bowl-shaped ancient Chinese cup with two handles)

shallow bowl

gloss; sheen (surface quality found in unglazed pottery)

Bizen ware (type of pottery)

local flavouring

out of place artifact; OOPArt

kuda-gitsune; pipe fox; fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses

artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit upon their 100th birthday

legendary monster resembling a flying squirrel

Budd-Chiari syndrome