Vocabulary

drone; unmanned aircraft

familiarity; closeness

period from midnight until the early morning

sense of loss; feeling of loss

youngest daughter

place to dry seaweed

around six o'clock AM; dawn service

midnight period; midnight service

six o'clock

Shughni (language spoken in Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)

object or shape that symbolizes the vow of a buddha or bodhisattva to save all life

being drawn to something one loves; amorous passion

rice boiled with adzuki beans

bewitched sword; magical sword; demon sword

skilled penman

lingua franca; vehicular language; bridge language; intermediary language

car wash (esp. hand car wash)

utsuro-bune; hollow ship; unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1803, sometimes alleged to have been a UFO

empty boat

isosurface

monk; member of religious order

number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation

business suit

pain threshold

respect

capstone in a cist; dolmen burial chamber

dolmen; portal tomb

burial urn (often two-storey); funerary urn

secondary grave (usu. for disinterred and washed bones); reburial grave

rim of bowl or vessel

plastic surgery; plastic operation

factory closure; factory shutdown

boneless rib (esp. of pork or beef); boned rib

fried mixture of minced pork, miso, mirin, etc. (Okinawan dish)

proactive inhibition

retroactive inhibition

flavour enhancer (e.g. monosodium glutamate); flavor enhancer

offering; sacrifice

time

consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)