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.