bokashi

Etymology

Japanese ぼかし

Noun

bokashi (uncountable)

1. The use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.
   • 2015 July 18, Jane Perrone, “Gardens: what to do this week”, in The Guardian‎:

     For a bokashi starter kit, try evengreener.com .

2. A technique in Japanese woodblock printmaking 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. The use of fogging or blurring to censor parts of an image, for example in Japanese pornography.

Anagrams

• kaibosh