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bokashi en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ぼかし.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.
    • For a bokashi starter kit, try evengreener.com . 2015 July 18, Jane Perrone, “Gardens: what to do this week”, in The Guardian:
  2. (uncountable) A technique in Japanese woodblock printing that achieves a variation in lightness and darkness of a single colour by means of ink applied by hand in gradations, rather than uniformly.
  3. (uncountable) The use of fogging or blurring to censor parts of an image, for example in Japanese pornography.