Vocabulary

chapter title; section title; volume title

volumes and chapters

Taiwanese bamboo raft

thermoforming

Kumamoto rice shōchū

polyvinylidene chloride

inside of the front cover (of book); front end-paper

muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking

encephalomyopathy

inside the back cover (book); rear end-paper

uncle

uncle (one's father's older brother)

uncle (one's father's younger brother)

Prajnaparamita Sutra; Perfection of Wisdom Sutra

recitation of Amida Buddha's name on a specified day and time period (practice of Pure Land Buddhists)

prajna-paramita (perfection of wisdom)

destroyer escort

police force; police squad

colloquialism; slang

liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.)

fuel surcharge

fuel oil; fuel

Ludwigia stipulacea (species of primrose-willow)

winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)

upstage right (on a noh stage)

upstage right (on a noh stage)

upstage center (in a noh play)

upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play

upstage left pillar (on a noh stage), next to the flute player

downstage right pillar (on a noh stage) used as a positioning guidepost for actors

downstage left pillar (on a noh stage), by which the supporting actor introduces himself

downstage left pillar (on a noh stage)

noh chorus seating area; side stage (noh)

stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus

stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus

self-introduction (of a character)

boiling

welling (up); gushing forth (of water); springing out; surging

second verse (in a linked series of poems)

olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni); Hodgson's tree pipit; Indian tree pipit