Bon Odori: Buddhist summer festival of the dead, which honors ancestors.

hana: A Japanese card game, which uses playing cards with floral patterns, often a gambling game.

Issei(s): First-generation Japanese immigrant(s) in America.

judo: A form of Jujitsu developed as a sport and a means of self-defense without the use of weapons.

karuta: Card game played at New Year's.

koden: A monetary offering to a departed spirit; a condolence gift; money given in honor of the memory of one who has died.

Nikkei: A person of Japanese ancestry.

Nisei(s): American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.

Sansei: American-born grandchildren of Japanese immigrants; third-generation Japanese Americans.

shoyu: Soy sauce.

tsukemono: Pickles; pickled vegetables.