Japanese arrowroot is better known as kudzu (葛), an invasive species in North America.

Eisou is written with the kanji for ice (氷) and frost (霜).

Slope mines differ from shaft and drift mines, which access resources by tunneling straight down or horizontally, respectively. In slope mining, the primary access to the mine is on an incline.

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