Vocabulary

slit in the curtains that allows someone on stage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre)

picking up stitches (knitting)

type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)

rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it

skirting board (in a Japanese-style room); baseboard

place containing a Buddhist image

government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period)

traditional Zen-style architecture

room for zazen meditation; room for Buddhist practices

being closed; being blocked up; being occupied; hindrance; impedance

loading; loading up (onto, into)

days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle)

conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers; rulers apprehending the views of those they govern

unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin)

setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period)

conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers

setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period)

place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction

city symbol; city emblem

abstruseness; abstruse word

multimodality; multimodal

day of Ten'ichijin's first ascension to heaven in a year (the 30th day of the first sexagenary cycle of the year)

Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky

earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Han dynasty China)

earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Jomon-period Japan)

line integral; path integral; contour integral; curve integral

village

national rural police (1947-1954)

national rural police (1947-1954)

sleeping outdoors

house covered with dew; place covered with dew

lie

secret mistress

secret (male) lover

house covered with dew; place covered with dew

government-owned ship

tactile organ

tactile organ; touch organ

tactile organ; touch organ

women's language; word used by women