Hotei; Budai; god of contentment, depicted as a pot-bellied monk who carries a large cloth bag on his back
linen kariginu; plain kariginu (Edo period); commoner
potbelly; protruding belly
fishpole bamboo (Phyllostachys aurea); golden bamboo
common water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes)
ceremony in which an abdicated emperor puts on informal court clothes (i.e. a kariginu and eboshi) for the first time
fairy slipper (Calypso bulbosa, esp. Calypso bulbosa var. speciosa)