Vocabulary

ancient Japanese sweat-absorbent summer garment

straw zori

dusky-red; color of cypress bark

head and body

carnivorous bird

tosa (dog breed)

edge of town; outskirts of a village

dirty joke; blue joke

protection money

bedmaking

short cycle; short period

rock plate

non-support; disapproval (e.g. in an opinion poll)

aging (of a population); ageing

fish and chips

Windows (Microsoft operating system)

initial consonant; syllable onset

initial (part of Chinese syllable)

oral consonant (as opposed to nasal)

final consonant

yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

qieyun (ancient Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme, displaying characters' meanings and representing their pronunciation with fanqie)

denghu (phonetic method of classifying Chinese finals)

Japan's envoy to Sui dynasty China

Wu dynasty reading of Chinese characters

Vimalakirti Sutra

Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations)

fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

tiara

meteorite

pentagram (as used in divination, etc.)

phrases, etc. at the ends of letters, etc.

paper towel (esp. for drying one's hands); paper hand towel

superphosphate

river fishing

ripples on a river

tanning

leather strap; thong; leash

leather cover; leather binding

joy; enjoyment; delight; pleasure