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.