Vocabulary

selling individually; selling piecemeal

mountain cliff; mountain precipice

stipend; reward

new constitution (esp. Japan's postwar constitution)

large landowner; major landowner; great landowner

new yen (issued in 1946 to fight inflation)

privately owned rice field

outhouse (from which night-soil may be collected); privy

dropping a bomb; bomb drop

manservant

tip of a scabbard

(ornamental) tip of a scabbard

gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient Japan

turned-back hem of a kimono

traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

tool used to extract combusted tobacco from a kiseru pipe

sparing life and taking life; letting live and killing

orbital plane

Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees

orbital motion

plane of revolution

plain tripe; cow rumen

stomach (esp. a pig's stomach or a cow's rumen); pork stomach

night-soil bucket; honey bucket

rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)

sling

ritual singing and dancing gathering of young men and women

purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such)

tub used to collect feces in an outhouse

sewing elastic; flat bands of elastic for sewing in cuffs, etc.

life raft; lifeboat

Vespa ducalis (species of hornet)

yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera, subspecies of the Japanese hornet, Vespa simillima)

Japanese hornet (Vespa simillima, esp. subspecies Vespa simillima simillima); yellow hornet

yellow-vented hornet (Vespa analis)

European hornet (Vespa crabro)

brown hornet (Vespa dybowskii)

lesser banded hornet (Vespa affinis)

median wasp (Dolichovespula media)

potter wasp (any wasp of subfamily Eumeninae); mason wasp