daikon: Japanese radish.
gidayuu: Type of reciting used in the puppet theater.
go: A Japanese game of strategy played with black and white stones on a board marked with many intersecting lines.
kamaboko: Boiled fish paste.
kenjinkai: Association of people who came from the same prefecture in Japan.
Kibei: American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.
konyaku: Food made of solidified jelly.
mochitsuki: Rice cake making.
nappa: Greens, as in vegetables.
odori: Dance; dancing.
okazu: Side dish; accompaniment for rice dishes.
Oshogatsu: New Year celebration.
sakanayasan: Fish peddler.
shakuhachi: Five-holed bamboo wind instrument.
shamisen: A Japanese instrument, similar to a banjo.
shigin: Guttural singing of a ballad; recitation or chanting of a Chinese poem.
shoyu: Soy sauce.