adlay (Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen); Job's tears; coixseed; tear grass; adlai
soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
kuma bamboo grass (Sasa veitchii); Veitch's bamboo
Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji)
frozen tofu; dried bean curd
ice; shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu; frying in oil; deep-fried food
okara; soy pulp; tofu dregs; edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu
bean curd lees; soybean pulp; refuse from tofu; deutzia; Deutzia crenata
tofu skin; dried beancurd; delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk
tofu skin; dried beancurd; delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk
natto (fermented soybeans)
Utsunomiya (city in Tochigi)
greenhouse; icehouse; cellar
Izumi (former province located in the southwest of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
small grain; small stature or ability
common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); kidney bean; navy bean; wax bean; green bean; string bean
cowpea (Vigna unguiculata); cow pea; black-eyed pea; southern pea
servant (esp. a samurai's attendant); chivalrous man (Edo period); cubed tofu (often served cold); kite shaped like an Edo-period footman; Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants; enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime); (arch.) he
mung bean (Vigna radiata); green gram
sword bean (Canavalia gladiata)
nata; sturdy broad-bladed knife, used in woodcraft and hunting (often with a rectangular blade)
hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus)
peanut (Arachis hypogaea); groundnut
ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
root crops; root vegetables
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
to grow senile; to be childish with age; to be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to play stupid; to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)
Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus); topinambur; girasol; girasole
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
rustic; unsophisticated; provincial; hick; uncool; unstylish
Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)
Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person
tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium)
leafy vegetables; stem vegetables
garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); Chinese chives; Chinese leek
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc.; (arch.) counter for boats
royal fern (Osmunda japonica); flowering fern; osmund; fiddlehead fern