Vocabulary

noodles with duck meat and Welsh onions

haori coat used by soldiers

heavy cream

office (usu. for construction, maintenance, services, etc.)

Sunni (Islam); Sunnah

Sunni (Islam)

defense minister; defence minister

vacant constituency

published book; printed book

widowhood; widowerhood; viduity; living without a spouse

small political party

forward price; futures price; futures quotation

international index

remaining money; change

immediately; promptly

waterway; canal; river

waterway; canal; river

chief of bandits

sick soldier

desolate (e.g. plains); ruined

severe (personality); unaffected by love

tall and steep

to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)

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

choo-choo; chug-chug; chuff-chuff; hiss-hiss

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

jet-black hair

syphilis

gray satin fabric

sound of a heavy object falling

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