Vocabulary

rehearsal

marcato

being cunning and spiteful, yet honey-tongued with feigned kindness

spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season

ceaseless; constant; uninterrupted

everlasting; forever unchanging; undying

the flourishing mid-Shōwa period (1960s and early 1970s) of peace, rapid economic growth, and life of ease

everyday occurrence; commonplace of life; nothing out of the ordinary

words and deeds of the people of yore

still remaining after a thousand years; immortal

all sorts of things; all manner of affairs

heroic words; big talk; boasting; bragging; grandiloquence; rodomontade

will of iron

will of iron

superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking; half-baked (foolish, ill-advised) idea

vichyssoise

what goes around

tamarind

projectile vomiting

hakapik; iron hammer and hook mounted on a long wooden pole used for killing seals

in a hurry; hustle; person who's always in a rush

prankster; joker; taking a joke to the extreme

trickery

trickery

Rastafarianism; Rastafari

Rastafarian; Rasta

sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts (Edo period); vulgar words used by prostitutes (Edo period)

language used in red-light districts during the Edo period

wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

spokeshave; spoke shave

wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade

phalanx

plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

cutting blade of a plane

groove in the body of wooden plane which holds the blade

metal rod in a wooden plane which holds the chip breaker against the blade

woman on top (sex position); cowgirl position

barbershop; barber shop

(with) a flash of a drawn sword; brandishing a sword

newly opened (e.g. of shop)