Kashiyayokochou (street in Kawagoe (Koedo), in Saitama-ken, known for its many traditional and contemporary candy and snack shops)
lost twenty years; period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s
sweetened sweet potato fries; fried strips of sweet potato coated with sugar
purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Peer Gynt (1867 play by Henrik Ibsen)
sweet potato shop; sweet potato seller
sliding safely; just making it; being just on time
dementia with Lewy bodies; DLB; Lewy body dementia; LBD
to write down or convey in full
grilled eggplant; fried eggplant
confession; confidential talk; frank talk
angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare)
to become a couple; to be man and wife; to be married to
snow pea; snow peas; mange tout
warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud; building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses
Little Edo; town or neighbourhood with an old townscape reminiscent of Edo
Japan's first circulated coinage (minted in 708 CE)
encouragement rally; pep rally; spirit rally
unprolific (writer, artist, etc.)
bitter melon stir-fried with pork, tofu and other vegetables
unveiling; debut; introduction
mohawk (hairstyle); mohican
Taishō romanticism (style of art, architecture, etc.)
flip turn (swimming); quick turn; somersault turn; tumble turn
diligence in studying (e.g. continuing to study even in such poor light as offered by a firefly or that reflected by snow); diligent study