Vocabulary

autonomous republic

retaining fee; retainer

semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

meeting place; open area for meetings, markets, etc.

whole temple complex; all the temples on a mountain

Rustication Movement; movement in China in 1957 to get people to move to the countryside

functionality

new ground (science, art, etc.); new front; new scope; frontier

other side; other party; other end (e.g. of phone connection); opposition

front lens element (of a camera lens assembly)

functional polymer

boat festival; festival with portable shrines carried on boats

practice meeting; practice group

being terribly grateful

eradication of corruption

Uji-cha; prized Japanese green tea cultivated around Uji, Kyoto

Shizuoka-cha; prized Japanese green tea cultivated in Shizuoka Prefecture

three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)

dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser)

wrapping; envelopment

hair elastic; hair tie; hair band; rubber band

espionage network; intelligence network

advertising fraudulent investment schemes with glossy brochures, phone calls, etc.

groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument

freighter (aircraft); cargo plane

tamago dofu; tamago-dofu; steamed egg custard with soup stock, cooked in a square mould

robbery suspect

crema catalana

repulsion

crema; froth on espresso coffee

clemastine

freight locomotive; goods engine

streetboard; snakeboard; streetboarding

pitot tube; pitot

egg mixture; egg wash

liquid egg; liquified eggs; liquefied eggs

liquid egg

processed egg; processed egg product

frozen eggs

cryopreserved oocyte; frozen ovum