butsudan: A household family Buddhist altar.

gaijin: Foreigner.

geta: Japaense wooden clogs.

gobo: Burdock root.

gochiso: Feast; dinner; banquet.

gohan: Boiled rice; a meal.

goma: Sesame seeds.

hakujin: Caucasian(s); white(s).

Hanafuda: A Japanese card game using playing cards with floral patterns, often a gambling game; also, nose; flower.

himago: Great-grandchild.

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

katakana: The Japanese alphabet, written with a square style.

ken: A prefecture.

kenjinkai: Association of people who came from the same prefecture in Japan.

mago: Grandchild.

mochi: Japanese rice cake.

mochitsuki: Rice cake making.

neesan: Older sister.

Nihon: Japan.

Nihonshoku: Japanese food; meal.

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

Oshogatsu: New Year celebration.

renkon: Lotus root.

romaji: A method of writing the Japanese language in English characters.

sanbasan: Midwife.

shamisen: A Japanese instrument, similar to a banjo.

yen: The basic monetary unit of Japan.