Vocabulary

citrine; yellow quartz

jonquil (Narcissus jonquilla)

tree sparrow (Passer montanus)

Hades; hell; underworld

corpus luteum

luteal hormone (e.g. progesterone); progestogen; gestagen; progestin

yellowback sea bream (Dentex tumifrons)

Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone)

iron pyrites; fool's gold; pyrite

yellow peach

zodiacal light

twelve signs of the zodiac

brassy yellow

zodiac

plane of the ecliptic

yellow and white; gold and silver

yellowish-white; pale yellow

yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)

macula; macula lutea; yellow spot

illustrated storybook with yellow covers (Edo period)

young and inexperienced person

kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour

yellow jasper; beryl

spoiled rice; spoilt rice

yellowish; cream-coloured; cream-colored

Japanese box tree (Buxus microphylla var. japonica); Japanese boxwood

yellow-green; pea green

yellow phosphorus

Okayama Prefecture (Chūgoku area)

wooden carrying box

jealousy; envy

red-light district

looking on from the side; looking on by an outsider

alluvial

alluvial period

alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

alluvium; alluvial stratum

alluvial soil

longshoreman; stevedore

rising into the heavens