Vocabulary

subversion (of the state)

arrears; late fee; delinquent account charge

adventurous; risky; hazardous; perilous

good example

city dweller; townspeople

fireman

to post a notice; to put up a notice

every summer

female teacher

priestess

body without organs; BwO

priestess

High Priestess (Tarot card); Popess

(political) policy position; line of policy; party line

Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods)

liberal arts college

distress; disaster

to behave perversely; to (sexually) assault a woman

foot soldier (Edo period); samurai on foot

trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata); hardy orange

slate roof tile

squeaking or creaking (followed by a thump)

monk; priest

(another's) son; boy; young master

sleep-talking; nonsense

profanation; defiling something precious

storage chest for a suit of armour and a helmet

face angle

plane angle

patrol

Carnal Prayer Mat (Qing dynasty era erotic novel by Li Yu)

public lavatory

clay pot used to collect night-soil

real world; outside world (e.g. the world outside of school)

simple paper mask

using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period)

postman; postwoman; postal delivery worker

investor

speculator; venturer

fairly long period of time