Vocabulary

white powder for use on the neck (e.g. by geisha)

woman who puts thick white powder on her neck; low class prostitute

scholar

unkempt hair

sand path; sand road

prostitute; harlot

Chinese windmill (species of red-bodied swallowtail butterfly, Atrophaneura alcinous)

jet-black hair

syphilis

gray satin fabric

Heian-period boarding school (for children of a specific noble clan) established near the former central university of Kyoto

seven boarding schools established in Kyoto by noble families during the early Heian period

Heian-period student of government administration

side house (to the east, west, or north of a main residence; home to women, children and servants)

purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline

purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline

northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife)

Chinese (language)

roofed corridor connecting two buildings (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

western side house (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

sour kombu prepared with black vinegar

eastern side house (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

roofed path (lacking walls) connecting the main residence and the side houses (in traditional palatial architecture)

grounds south of a building; southern garden

exquisitely decorated pleasure boat

rickshaw man

playing with something with one's fingers

boiling something whole (e.g. vegetable, fish); cooking something whole

type of fast military boat used from the Warring states period until the Edo period

large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods

fast-moving rowboat

planking (on a wooden ship)

type of oar

mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol)

threshing floor; place for threshing wheat

appearance; figure

old and strange

go or shogi board

song sung door-to-door

foreign priest; Western priest