Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
koden: A monetary offering to a departed spirit, a condolence gift, money given in honor of the memory of one who has died.
Nikkei: A person of Japanese ancestry.
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.
shoji: A translucent sliding panel of rice paper on a wooden frame, used in Japanese homes as a partition or door.
tokonoma: Alcove where art or flowers are displayed.