kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)
to be stiff; to be starchy
walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea); walkingstick; stick insect; leaf insect
alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii)
dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack
to become empty (hollow); to relax from a tense situation into a vacant or absent minded state
to weep copiously; to grieve; to be dejected
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
better than none at all; better than nothing
dicentra (Dicentra peregrina)
Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health)
karaori; Chinese weave; cloth decorated with birds and flowers in silk; noh theater costume made with karaori weave
red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa); thread-waisted wasp (any wasp of family Sphecidae, incl. digger wasps and mud daubers)
to scrape off; to shave off
tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica)
skirt steak; meat cut from the diaphragm; belly meat (e.g. salmon); peritoneal meat (e.g. chicken)
water flea (Daphnia spp.)
to stretch one's arms; to elongate one's arms
miso ball; bean paste ball
face tattoo; facial tattoo
remnants of a bean plant; beanstalks and pods; bean husk
dried leaves (esp. of daikon and turnip)
traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where one person beats a fruit tree (usu. persimmon tree) with a pole while threatening to cut it down if it does not provide a plentiful harvest, with another person responding "I will, I will" for the tree
dark and desolate; forlorn