Yeap. Swedish (female) mangaka also noted that her Japanese friends would be very loud and open as long as it was an all-girls gang, but as soon as a boy would happen to show up it would be instant demureness, legs together and indoor voices offering to pour them a beer (even from the girls who...
Japanese national volleyball team has the biggest problem in finding tall people to train against (so they can train in getting past blocks) - so they got robots for that as well.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2127679-robot-volleyball-machine-helps-japan-team-practise-attacks/
@Maplereads It's so natural for them to shower/wash before the bath that it doesn't even need to be implied. Everyone (reading it on their own, rather than a translation) knows that is how it works.
@Nixnaw I'm not the translator, but I'm sure they're reading this thread anyway.
However the second point was - did you find a website at least a hundred years old? ;)
(I.e. any proof that the clematis had that meaning also in that past which is concurrent to the story.)
Not that I know if it is relevant, but the only other Clematis reference I found was that the evergreen one meant poverty. (Having to be crafty about how to get food on your plate? idk).
@suchtla I couldn't find any rules for it, but I did find that arm wrestling is listed as a "sumo sport" in the japanese wikipedia - which I found interesting enough to share.
(So basically he's dragged into and loses a game of arm sumo, and then he suggests push sumo as a pretty close...