Vocabulary

minstrel

minstrel show

to be taken (of a photograph)

to be recorded (of sound or video); to be caught on tape

to be collected (of clams, etc.); to be gathered (of mushrooms, herbs, etc.); to be picked (of fruit, etc.); to be mined (of diamonds, etc.); to be extracted (e.g. oil from soybeans); to be obtained

to be caught (of a wild animal, fish, baseball, etc.); to be captured

to be harvested; to be picked

samurai words and phrases

samurai words and phrases

hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing); kabane

retainer; attendant

Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight)

Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back)

female slave

transit point; transit airport; connection airport

slave

sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)

manservant; footman

descendant; scion; lineage

clans supposedly descended from the gods

clans supposedly descended from the imperial family

clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean)

foreign lands

ridiculously; unusually; exceptionally

acquaintanceship

preconscious (psychoanalysis)

(Kantian) pure reason

rationalism

innate

innateness; innate feature (or character, etc.)

innate idea; innate ideas

innate idea; innate ideas

acquired idea (as opposed to innate); acquired ideas

self-consciousness

self-consciousness

transcendental idealism

Frankfurt School (school of social theory and critical philosophy)

transcendental consciousness

eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness)

manas-vijnana (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self)