picaresque novel

dried ginger rhizome

(biochemistry, dated) casein

(Kagoshima, dialect) thank you

physically warm / financially well off, rich / thoughtful, understanding, emotionally warm / (dated) romantically warm

愛知: Aichi

明子, 昭子, 右子, 章子, 晶子, 晃子, 亜希子, 亜季子: a female given name

Alternative form of あのね

藜, 莱, 萊: Chenopodium album var. centrorubrum (a red variety of white goosefoot) / 赤佐, 赤座, 赤刺: Liobagrus reinii (a kind of catfish endemic to Japan)

アフリカ: Africa