Awa Odori Festival (Tokushima)
town girl; girl raised in a town
Miyamayomena savateri; Gymnaster savatieri
pygmy waterlily (Nymphaea tetragona)
Emperor Juntoku; Juntoku Tenno (1197-1242 CE, reigning: 1210-1221 CE)
changing heart; fleeting heart; cheating heart; beautiful heart
becoming unworldly; being free from worldliness; not keeping up with social norms
need; want; necessity; costs; expenses
(incense) pastille; round cake of incense, esp. used in incense ceremony
child's role in noh dance; child actor (in noh); henchman; follower
flowers budding; blooming; flowering; showing results; becoming popular; blooming
fish-shaped pancake filled with bean jam
no; that's wrong; it's not like that; isn't it?; wasn't it?
widow; divorced woman not remarried; unmarried woman
kai-awase; Heian period shell-matching game; kai-awase; Heian period shell comparison game; tribadism; tribbing
pipe; tube; gun barrel; gun; cannon; well lining
sudden, wide-spread drop in prices
cruel; inhumane; callous; brutal
creaminess; cream-like consistency
Jōkyū era (1219.4.12-1222.4.13); Shōkyū era
yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe)
kendama; Japanese bilboquet (cup-and-ball game)
tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings
spinning top (traditionally made of Japanese babylon shell)
root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base
rolled Japanese-style omelette
water lily (any plant of genus Nymphaea); pygmy waterlily (Nymphaea tetragona)
ancient burial mound; barrow; tumulus
currently popular; in fashion; trendy
greed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person
three-lips (freshwater fish of the minnow family, Opsariichthys uncirostris)
thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal; thank you (for displaying lovey-dovey behaviour)
Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)
ohajiki; traditional Japanese children's game similar to marbles, played with coin-shaped pieces made of coloured glass or plastic
to rake over the coals; to scold; to chastise; to burn moxa on the skin
chopped burdock root (and sometimes carrot) cooked in sugar and soy sauce