Vocabulary

Epipaleolithic (era)

microlith (small stone tool)

base rock; country rock; gangue; host rock; mother rock; parent rock

French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman

sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

photocollage; photomontage

drunkard; reveller

difficult battle

looks; features

bread crust

humiliation; indignity; affront; assault

Local Government Finance Act

Local Public Enterprise Act

vestibule; attached room

front room; front parlor; lobby; anticum

(bread) crust

Local Government Finance Act

Local Public Enterprise Act

Japan Fine Arts Exhibition

acute abdomen (sudden, severe abdominal pain)

lying down on one's side

abduction; eversion; exodeviation; exstrophy

adduction; rolling internally; intorsion

sex position

year after year; as the years go by; with each passing year

alternative name; alternate name

pornographic magazine or book sold wrapped in plastic

long hair style popular in the Genroku era

shoulder-length hairstyle for children

short coat for noblewomen (Nara and Heian period)

break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.)

exile; deportation; banishment

laudation; acclaim

inkstone

paper used for copybooks

first wind of the season (esp. the first wind of autumn)

fraction; odd sum

dyed garments; dyed kimono

black dyed garment; black dyed kimono

water from the capital (Kyoto), rumored to have a whitening effect