Vocabulary

a long time ago; in those days; once upon a time

irreligion; atheism

lack of religion; irreligion; atheism

irreligion; unbelief; atheism; atheist

atheist

spoiling someone's work; useless effort; labouring in vain; if a peasant sows seeds, the crows will dig them up

one becomes sleepy when one's stomach is full; full stomach, sleepy head; when the skin of the belly is extended, the skin of the eyes droops

match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sparrow and bamboo (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)

wasting one's efforts; rendering one's efforts futile

pet dog; non-sporting dog

crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing)

wage slave

Saturn (planet)

father

father; male parent

LOL; haha

faint smile

the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses throwing stones; a monkey's laughter at (another monkey's) buttocks

chuckle; snigger; laughing secretly

first laugh of the year

faint smile; half smile

laughing by oneself

snicker; snigger; ridiculing laughter

five characters; five letters

squid

hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"

ogham; ogham script

sushi

cross-wise writing; alphabet usually written horizontally

mirror writing

sickle-shaped; falciform

multibyte character

Chinese characters; kanji

Japanese syllabary symbols; kana

idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words

Khitan people; Khitai; Kitan; Kidan

Khitan script

Jurchen script

silver-gilt letters; silvery letters

Cretan script (Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B)