Bon Odori: Buddhist summer festival of the dead, which honors ancestors.
chonan: The eldest son who usually inherited all family property and traditionally, was responsible for the care of his elderly parents.
daimyo: A feudal lord.
gaijin: Foreigner.
Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
koto A Japanese harp or zither.
mon: Family crest.
Nihonjin: Japanese person(s).
Nikkei: A person of Japanese ancestry.
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.
odori: Dance; dancing.
shamisen: A Japanese instrument, similar to a banjo.
soroban: Abacus; calculator.
yogore: Dirt, filth, soil; derogatory term.
yoshi: An adopted son; a son-in-law; a man who marries the eldest daughter in a family without sons and is adopted into her family to carry on the family name.