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.

judo: A form of Jujitsu developed as a sport and a means of self-defense without the use of weapons.

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

sake: Japanese liquor; rice wine.

shochu: Japanese liquor similar to vodka.