Vocabulary

Japanese garden juniper; dwarf Japanese garden juniper; Juniperus procumbens; J. chinensis var. procumbens

Celastrus orbiculatus

Disanthus cercidifolius (species of witch-hazel)

Enkianthus perulatus (species of flowering plant)

Cornus alba

temple juniper (Juniperus rigida); needle juniper

white-flowered camellia (Camellia japonica var.)

Viburnum plicatum var. plicatum

Hall's crab apple; flowering crab apple; Malus halliana

Chinese redbud (Cercis chinensis)

fritillary (Fritillaria verticillata var. thunbergii)

Miyamayomena savatieri (species of flowering plant)

Japanese snowball; Viburnum plicatum

Litsea cubeba

Old World forked fern (Dicranopteris linearis)

dried Chinese asparagus root

Solomon's seal (Polygonatum falcatum)

Prunus cerasifera var. atropurpurea; pissard plum

common water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes)

silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)

balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum); love-in-a-puff

scarlet rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus)

Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass)

Carex morrowii

sweet viburnum (Viburnum odoratissimum)

ostrich fern; Onoclea orientalis

honey locust (Gleditsia japonica)

Idesia polycarpa; idesia

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); winter peony

coralberry (Ardisia crenata)

Mahonia japonica; Japanese mahonia

elegant; graceful; refined

to be elegant; to be graceful; to be refined

modern term; neologism

inquiry counter; consulting service; assistance service

to leave to one's imagination

to suspend operations (esp. of trains); to stop driving

to leave to take its own course; to let a matter take care of itself

selflessness; selfless devotion to the service of others

Shuhari; three stages of mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, creating one's own techniques