katana with a bamboo blade; takemitsu / bamboo sword used in martial arts such as 剣道 (kendō); shinai

Kyūjitai form of 地区: zone (area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc)

accumulation

accumulate

Hsinchu

a childhood friend

chikuwa (tube-shaped fish-paste cake), a particular way of preparing kamaboko

新竹: Hsinchu, Taiwan

(dialect) very

五畜: the five types of livestock: chickens, sheep, cattle, horses, and pigs / 呉竹: henon bamboo, a variety of Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo) / 梧竹: the Chinese parasol tree (Firmiana simplex) and bamboo