Vocabulary

this business; this profession

soft palate

love story; erotic literature

soft water

softball tennis

Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball

mollusc; mollusk

sludge; ooze

soft chancre

loose or soft stool

gentle breeze

cartilage tissue

cartilaginous fishes; chondrichthyans

soft ball; rubber ball

soft iron

weak argument

softness

mild steel

abnormally warm winter

well-fed and well-dressed

warm country; warm region

warm temperate zone; subtropics

imprinting; stenciling

zitting cisticola (Cisticola juncidis); fan-tailed warbler

strawberry saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera); mother-of-thousands; creeping saxifrage; strawberry geranium

snow woman

coating of snow; blanket of snow

snow, moon, and flowers; beauty of the four seasons

snowball

snow blindness

snow's surface

snow boots

breaking under the weight of snow

snowball fight

snowflake

snowshed

three-legged stone lantern

sake drunk while viewing a snowy scene

shoji with a glass bottom half (for snow viewing)

mountain hare (Lepus timidus); blue hare; white hare; alpine hare