banzai: Cheers; congratulations.

chanbara: Samurai movie.

furo: Japanese-style hot bath.

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

karuta: Card game played at New Year's.

kimono: A robe with wide sleeves and a sash, part of traditional costume of Japanese men and women.

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

samurai: Japanese warrior or military class during feudal times in Japan.

yobiyose: Immigration of family for permanent residence; a person called over from Japan to U.S. to immigrate.

yoshi: An adopted son; a son-in-law; a man who marries the eldest daughter in a family without sons and is adopted into her family to carry on the family name.