Vocabulary

map of Edo

large ditch

candy shop; candy maker

blizzard; snowstorm

vents at the hips of a pair of hakama

optical vortex

interviewer

interviewee

interviewer

hours for interviews

loop-line bus; loop bus; bus on a circular route; bus following a circular route

head of a police station; chief of a police station; superintendent

Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

schizophrenic

briefcase; attaché case

introduction of someone else

sneak thief; petty thief; cat burglar

future day; later date

the Tokugawa shogunate's eighty thousand guards (comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals)

haiku gathering

frog in a well; someone with a narrow perspective

proof of identity (for nobles, doctors, etc.; Heian period)

rice field in the charge of a nominal holder (ritsuryō system)

public servant; government official

provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)

feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch

Ikkō sect (of Buddhism); Jōdo Shinshū; True Pure Land School

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)

gas discharge lamp starter; fluorescent lamp starter; glow starter

night-light bulb; jujube bulb

greenhouse cultivation

various fiefdoms; various domains

allotted rice field (ritsuryō system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government

nominal holder of an allocated rice field (ritsuryō system)

currency expansion; inflation of currency

currency contraction; deflation of currency

currency value; value of a currency

pass (e.g. backstage pass); permit (to pass or travel); laissez passer; passport

permit (to pass, enter, etc.); pass