Vocabulary

harai goshi (judo); sweeping hip throw; hip sweep

ball-and-mallet game played during New Year's celebrations

bougie; probe

de novo mutation

radio pliers; needle-nose pliers; long-nose pliers

harihari nabe; whale meat and potherb mustard hot pot

Japanese wood poppy (Glaucidium palmatum)

Sieversia pentapetala (yellow and white rose species)

gold and silver chrysanthemum (Ajania pacifica)

bead lily (Clintonia udensis)

Japanese stream orchid (Epipactis thunbergii)

Viola sieboldii (violet species)

Lithospermum zollingeri (violet species)

Eupatorium glehnii (boneset species)

Viola vaginata (violet species)

herb-robert (Geranium robertianum); Robert's geranium

alpine azalea (Kalmia procumbens); trailing azalea

white leadtree (Leucaena leucocephala); white popinac; wild tamarind

green tree cricket (Truljalia hibinonis)

sickle-bearing bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata)

grey field-speedwell (Veronica polita)

Amanita caesareoides (edible mushroom species)

sulphur shelf (Laetiporus sulphureus); chicken-of-the-woods

brick cap (Hypholoma lateritium); chestnut mushroom

Jersey cow mushroom (Suillus bovinus); bovine bolete

taro variety cultivated in paddy fields

New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)

hardy yellow hibiscus (Hibiscus hamabo)

plume poppy (Macleaya cordata); tree celandine

Haji ware; Haji pottery; unglazed red-brown pottery made from the Kofun period through the Heian period

reciprocating a like (on social media); like for like

Gran Colombia (1819-1831); Greater Columbia

narco-state

drug cartel

narcoterrorism

narcoterrorism

student guidance office; student counseling room

smuggling (during the Edo period); contraband

abruptly hanging up the phone while the other person is still talking

war on drugs