Vocabulary

mountain top; summit; peak

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

mountain monkey; wild monkey

mountain district

mountaineering club

mountainous region

gorge; ravine; gap

Yamagata Prefecture (Tōhoku area)

Yamaguchi Prefecture (Chūgoku area)

speculator

scenic beauty

bumpkin; person from the country; unrefined person recently arrived from the countryside

landlocked masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou masou)

mountain fire; bush fire

mountain castle

landscape picture

sasanqua (Camellia sasanqua)

in the mountains; among the mountains

woodman's hatchet

wildcat strike

echo (esp. one reverberating in the mountains)

goat

Capricornus (constellation); Capricorn; the Goat

Yamanashi Prefecture (Chūbu area)

forestry

Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum); Japanese prickly ash

salamander

cruel; merciless; pitiless; brutal; atrocious; inhuman

heavy damage; havoc; ravages

tragic death; violent death

slump; sudden fall of market price

miserable; pitiful; tragic; wretched; horrible; terrible

to scatter; to spread

to come apart; to unravel; to come loose; to become disarrayed (e.g. of hair)

chirashi; chirashizushi; sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top

here and there; scattered about

extravagant spending; wasteful spending; splurging; squandering

shotgun

plank path (on a steep mountainside, cliff face, etc.); walkway

brilliant; bright