Vocabulary

remonstrance; remonstration; admonition; protest; reproof; expostulation

crawling on the ground; shuffling on one's knees

common crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)

itai-itai disease; mass cadmium poisoning in Toyama Prefecture starting in the 1910s caused by industrial waste

Venetian blind

head chef

dismantling a (historic) building and reconstructing it elsewhere

losing easily; being trounced; being beaten hands down

wall iris; roof iris; Iris tectorum; fleur-de-lis

burglary turned robbery (i.e. when the burglar is detected)

going concern; stocks and all; goods and furniture included

Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis)

parched or roasted beans (or soybeans)

natural mineral pigments

sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

meteoric iron

fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

transplantation (of plants); transplanting

floating nest

floating dock

gnu; wildebeest

clothing with the opening at the back

back part of a kimono

light trading; low volume of transactions

semi-darkness; dim light; poor light; dusk; twilight

antlion (esp. species Hagenomyia micans)

thin mist; light mist

Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula); Japanese bullfinch

doing for fun; play

short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole

mishit; poor stroke; poor shot

undressed concrete; unfaced concrete

punching (e.g. with a die); die cutting; blanking

opening inward (of a door or window)

backward pivot throw; technique of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring

deutzia (Deutzia crenata)

pitcher plant

tower

good-for-nothing

nonexistence