furoba: Japanese-style hot bath.

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

-ken: A prefecture.

mochitsuki: Rice cake making.

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

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

sake: Japanese liquor; rice wine.

tanka: A Japanese verse form of 31 syllables in 5 unrhymed lines, the first and third having 5 syllables each and the others having 7.