daikon: Japanese radish.
geta: Japanese wooden sandals.
Hana: A Japanese card game using playing cards with floral patterns, often a gambling game; also, nose; flower.
Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
Kibei: American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.
kimono: A robe with wide sleeves and a sash, part of traditional costume of Japanese men and women.
nasubi: Eggplant.
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.
obaachan: Grandmother, elderly lady.
obi: Kimono sash.
ojiisan: Grandfather.
ondo: Leading a group of people; someone who leads others into a song by singing the leading notes.
onigiri: Rice ball.
samurai: Japanese warrior or military class during feudal times in Japan.